Passing wildcard to MSBuild settings? about website HOT 3 CLOSED

You can't pass a globber pattern directly to the MSBuild alias, but Cake does indeed have globbing support via the GetFiles aliases, so what you can do is something like below:

    var projects  = GetFiles("./**/*.csproj");
    // Build all solutions.
    foreach(var project in projects)
    {
        Information("Building {0}", solution);
        MSBuild(project, settings =>
            settings.SetPlatformTarget(PlatformTarget.MSIL)
                .WithProperty("TreatWarningsAsErrors","true")
                .WithTarget("Build")
                .SetConfiguration(configuration));
    }

You can include/exclude by combining two GetFiles together like below using - or + operator:

var projects  = GetFiles("./**/*.csproj") - GetFiles("./**/*Common*.csproj");

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@Sahilkhan99 for future reference, the issues list here on this repo is really intended for issues/problems/questions with that Cake website at http://cakebuild.net/. Your question would have been better suited over on the Cake repo here https://github.com/cake-build/cake, or as a question on our Gitter chat room here: https://gitter.im/cake-build/cake, or as a question tagged with cakebuild on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/cakebuild.

Out of interest, so that we can improve our messaging, what was it that brought you to this repo to ask your question?

Thanks for reaching out though, hope you are enjoying using Cake, and that @devlead answer above helps you out.

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Hi @devlead , Thank you for the answer. very helpful. I'll create a PR with this example so that other people can benefit from your answer.

@gep13, thank you for guiding me. I completely agree and I have chosen the wrong repo to ask this question. I clearly did not see there are 2 repos (website and cake). When I went on to the http://cakebuild.net/docs/tutorials/getting-started, I saw the edit on repo link and I thought was only available repo for cake.

I'll make sure next i'll ask more relevant question with specific repository.

Thank you.

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