Excluding xaml files in build based on target

[cconner100]

Do you have any suggestions on how to exclude xaml files from a build based on the target? Even if you need to exclude a directory would be acceptable.

thanks

[jeromelaban]

Great question. Excluding files is done though using multiple exclusion groups, as such:

<ItemGroup>
	<Page Remove="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)MyFolder\**" />
	<Compile Remove="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)MyFolder\**" />
	<None Include="$(MSBuildThisFileDirectory)MyFolder\**" />
</ItemGroup>

You can use a Condition on the ItemGroup like $(TargetFramework.Contains('-android')) to remove the files.

[cconner100]

Thanks,
What about these statements i see in the csproj

$(DefaultXamlRuntime) Page MSBuild:Compile

do i need to do something with these or the above Page directive will work

[cconner100]

Also i tried your above suggestion in my project, i get the following errors
when i add this to my project

  <ItemGroup Condition="$(TargetFramework.Contains('-windows')) != true">
    <Page Remove="**\Windows\**" />
    <Compile Remove="**\Windows\**" />
    <None Include="**\Windows\**" />
  </ItemGroup>

then the error is

E:\ZiiDMS\ZiiDMSApp\Client\ZiiDMSApp\ZiiDMSApp.Common\obj\Debug\net8.0-windows10.0.19041\Views\Windows\NavigationContainer.xbf" because it was not found.

[cconner100]

Here is a small repro on what i have tried and its not working. If someone could give me a solution that would be great,

There are 2 directories under presentation Windows and MacOS, I only want the windows directory to compile when compiling for windows and exclude the MacOS.

thanks
excluderepo.zip

[jeromelaban]

The exclusions must be placed at the end of the file, in order to cover the other groups that are including files.

A few other modifications are needed to make everything compile (missing event handlers and MainPage being Catalyst+Windows specific), otherwise the sample compiles.

[cconner100]

Yep that fixed it thanks