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VisualStudio.TestPlatform produces many <country>-folders

In Visual Studio '22 in a Test project with NUnit, the V.S. build produces 13 folders with
codes of countries like de, es, fr, it, zh-Hans etc. Each folder has the same set of 6 dll's e.g.
Microsoft.TestPlatform.CommunicationUtilities.resources.dll
Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.TestFramework.resources.dll

These dll's are also in the root folder and is there a way to avoid these sub-folders in the build?

Solution

  • You can restrict which folders are generated by adding the following line to the project file you're building, inside the <PropertyGroup> element:

    <SatelliteResourceLanguages>en</SatelliteResourceLanguages>

    And if you fancy French, too:

    <SatelliteResourceLanguages>en;fr</SatelliteResourceLanguages>