在 Visual Studio 中包含自动生成的静态内容

Question

My web application has a node process that runs things like transpilation and minification, and produces a bunch of output files. We've had problems with our CI server not sending these auto-generated files out unless they were manually included in the project.

Manually including auto-generated files is a pain, is easy to forget, and just an all-around bad idea.

How can I get visual studio to just include everything under a specific folder, no matter what. I just need these files to exist to my script loader can load them when needed.

Per this answer I tried

  <Target Name="BeforeBuild">
    <ItemGroup>
        <Content Include="2\application-base\**\*.js" />
    </ItemGroup>
  </Target>

to no avail. After adding that I've tried building the solution, the project, re-building the project, none of which cause anything in that folder to show up in the solution explorer as included.

Answer 1

Just put Content in the main ItemGroup of the project.

Ie

<ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="2\application-base\**\*" />