dotnet restore: exclude project

Question

I have a project solution where I also got a wix project. Actually wix is not supported by dotnet. On my build pipeline I have to run dotnet restore for the next stage.

But because of the wix project, I always get the following error:

D:\GitlabRunnerService\builds\fc40b836\0\customers\foo\foo-zls\src\foo.zls.setup.common\foo.zls.setup.common.wixproj(34,5): error : The WiX Toolset v3.11 (or newer) build tools must be installed to build this project. To download the WiX Toolset, see http://wixtoolset.org/releases/

Is there any solution how to exlude projects from the dotnet restore command?

gitlab-ci.yml

test:Common:
    stage: test
    script:
        - dotnet restore src
        - dotnet test --no-build -c Release -v n src\$env:TESTPROJECT\$env:TESTPROJECT.csproj --logger "trx;LogFileName=testreport.trx"
    after_script:
        - trx2junit src\$env:TESTPROJECT\Testresults\testreport.trx 
    artifacts:
        reports:
            junit: src\$env:TESTPROJECT\Testresults\testreport.xml
    tags:
        - dotnet-ps

In the Release configuration, the wix project is already excluded.

Have you tried to skip this project from build in solution properties? — Pavel Anikhouski
Right click project in solution view => Unload project => Build? — Stein Åsmul

Dominic Jonas Dominic Jonas · Accepted Answer · 2019-12-02T12:28:13

Instead of restoring the complete solution, I only restore the specific project(s). So after changing the restore command to dotnet restore src\$env:TESTPROJECT\$env:TESTPROJECT.csproj everything works as expected!`

OffTopic:

I need the dotnet restore command to find all nunit tests in buid pipeline..

'dotnet test' is not finding nunit tests in gitlab-runner pipeline

dotnet restore: exclude project

gitlab-ci.yml

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