不要将已安装的NuGet包中的PDB复制到/ bin / Release中

Question

There are two kinds of references: references to my projects (in my case, they are all in the same solution) and references to assemblies from NuGet packages. PDBs for the first category are useful, and I don't care at all about PDBs for the second category (please, correct me if I'm wrong in my reasoning and I actually should care about all PDBs).

Some of the PDBs are really huge (like AWSSDK.pdb which weights about 30MB) and I don't want them in my bin folder. I could eliminate all the PDBs using this msbuild flag . But I want to keep the good ones (mine) intact.

I could also add a post-build step which will remove all pdbs with name not starting with MyUniqueProjectPrefix. , but it feels like a hack.

Is there a clean way?

Answer 1

The package creator should not have included the .pdb in the package, but should have pushed a Symbol package to Nuget .

The best solution would be to contact the package author to update his package to use this feature.