Is it possible to hide files/folders in .net core csproj without excluding them from build? I have a folder containing generated files which I would rather see they are not visible inside Solution Explorer in Visual Studio.
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You can set the Visible="false" attribute on the items.
For an SDK-based project (.net core / asp.net core templates), you could add e.g.:
<ItemGroup> <Content Update="**/*.css" Visible="false" /> </ItemGroup> Depending on your project type (=> defaults), you might have to replace Content with None for the particular type, or even Compile for generated code files.
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redman
Is it possible to hide folder too? This hides all files in folder Generated, but the empty folder is still visible... <Compile Update="Generated\**" Visible="false" />
Martin Ullrich
To my knowledge, this is not possible. Many new tools try to autogenerate into
obj ($(BaseIntermediateOutputPath)) and include the items during the build and not as static ("root level") items using the Link metadata... But yes I also have stray dist / css folders etc.
julealgon
Is this supposed to work with .Net Core projects? I added the
Visible tag and the file still shows in solution explorer.
Codie Morgan
For NetCore and NetStandard It would not work for me unless I used None.
<None Remove="**/*.asmdef" Visible="false"/> 
yoel halb
By me it isn't available as attribute only as an element <Visible>False</visible>
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Thanks to Martin answer, I found a way to apply it to a whole folder using **\**. For example for an ASP.NET Core wwwroot\Scripts folder which contains files compiled by TypeScript (TypeScriptCompile):
<ItemGroup> <TypeScriptCompile Update="wwwroot\Scripts\**\**" Visible="False" /> <Content Update="wwwroot\Scripts\**\**" Visible="False" /> </ItemGroup> As his answer noted, you can add more type in there like None.
