Azure DevOps publish zip remove hidden folder

Question

I'm configuring an azure devops pipeline and want to zip the package for the publish. When I choose to zip, a directory that I have in the code (/wwwroot/.well-known) is not included in the zip.

Is there an option that exclude hidden folders?

Answer 1

I don't think the Azure DevOps task for running .NET commands has the option to include/exclude files while publishing. You can however configure that in your .csproj file.

Please refer the documentation on CopyToPublishDirectory.

I have tried the following and I was able to include a directory called .well-known which was created in my wwwroot folder

$ dotnet new webapp -o aspnetcoreapp
$ cd aspnetcoreapp
$ mkdir wwwroot/.well-known && touch wwwroot/.well-known/some-file

Add this to your .csproj file to include the .well-known directory

<ItemGroup>                                                                                                                                                           
    <Content  Include="wwwroot/.well-known/*" CopyToOutputDirectory="PreserveNewest" CopyToPublishDirectory="PreserveNewest" />                                         
</ItemGroup>

Publish your project

$ dotnet publish
$ ls -la bin/Debug/net6.0/publish/wwwroot