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I have 3 different settings files being used with a .NET Core 2.2 app

appsettings.json

appsettings.Development.json

appsettings.Test.json

Im using a publish profile that targets a specific build configuration (eg. Test), and in my publish profile, I added this to attempt to remove the appsettings files I DONT want deployed. No sense in deploying production settings to a dev server...

 <PropertyGroup>
 <ExcludeFilesFromDeployment>appsettings.json</ExcludeFilesFromDeployment>
 <ExcludeFilesFromDeployment>appsettings.Development.json</ExcludeFilesFromDeployment>
 </PropertyGroup>

However, when I publish, since in Visual Studio, all 3 files are present. How can I specify those other 2 files get removed on publish ?

I also tried putting this in my csproj file, but all 3 files end up being published

 <ItemGroup>
 <None Update="appsettings.json" CopyToPublishDirectory="Never" Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Test' "/>
 <None Update="appsettings.Development.json" CopyToPublishDirectory="Never" Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Test' "/>

 <None Update="appsettings.json" CopyToPublishDirectory="Never" Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release' "/>
 <None Update="appsettings.Test.json" CopyToPublishDirectory="Never" Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release' "/>

 </ItemGroup>

Not 100% sure on this one, but just a thought, have you tried setting those to only copy when it matches the build configuration expected, e.g.

 <ItemGroup>
 <None Update="appsettings.json" CopyToPublishDirectory="PreserveNewest" Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Production' "/>
 <None Update="appsettings.Development.json" CopyToPublishDirectory="PreserveNewest" Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Development' "/>
 <None Update="appsettings.Test.json" CopyToPublishDirectory="PreserveNewest" Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Test' "/>
 </ItemGroup>

Also please check your .net core version is not affected by https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/881

Not sure, but put this into your .csproj file to check if it helps.It works in vs2017, .net core on my side.

<ItemGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Test'">
 <Content Remove="appsettings.Development.json" />
 <None Include="appsettings.Development.json" />
 <Content Remove="appsettings.json" />
 <None Include="appsettings.json" />
 </ItemGroup>

 <ItemGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Release'">
 <Content Remove="appsettings.Test.json" />
 <None Include="appsettings.Test.json" />
 <Content Remove="appsettings.json" />
 <None Include="appsettings.json" />
 </ItemGroup>