Duplicate 'Content' items were included. The .NET SDK includes 'Content' items from your project directory by default

Question

Whenever I add a javascript or css file to my asp.net core project and I execute dotnet run in my bash terminal, I get the following error:

/usr/share/dotnet/sdk/1.0.1/Sdks/Microsoft.NET.Sdk/build/Microsoft

.NET.Sdk.DefaultItems.targets(188,5): error : Duplicate 'Content' items were included. The .NET SDK includes 'Content' items from your project directory by default. You can either remove these items from your project file, or set the 'EnableDefaultContentItems' property to 'false' if you want to explicitly include them in your project file. For more information, see https://aka.ms/sdkimplicititems. The duplicate items were: 'wwwroot/css/BasicQuotation.css'; 'wwwroot/js/BasicQuotation.js' [/mnt/c/Dev/myproject/MyProject/MyProject.csproj]

The build failed. Please fix the build errors and run again.

I can fix this by removing the ItemGroup from my csproj file, but I don't think that's very productive.

This happens in the default Visual Studio 2017 ASP.NET Core Web Application (.NET Core) template. I add the files to my project by right clicking the wwwroot > js folder and then select Add > New Item > JavaScript File

This is my .csproj file:

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Web">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp1.1</TargetFramework>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <PropertyGroup>
    <PackageTargetFallback>$(PackageTargetFallback);portable-net45+win8+wp8+wpa81;</PackageTargetFallback>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <PropertyGroup>
    <UserSecretsId>aspnet-MyProject-7e1906d8-5dbd-469a-b237-d7a563081253</UserSecretsId>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <Compile Remove="wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation\**" />
    <Content Remove="wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation\**" />
    <EmbeddedResource Remove="wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation\**" />
    <None Remove="wwwroot\lib\jquery-validation\**" />
  </ItemGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <Content Include="wwwroot\css\BasicQuotation.css" />
    <Content Include="wwwroot\js\BasicQuotation.js" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore" Version="1.1.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Cookies" Version="1.1.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore" Version="1.1.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc" Version="1.1.2" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles" Version="1.1.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Design" Version="1.1.1" PrivateAssets="All" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer" Version="1.1.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.Design" Version="1.1.1" PrivateAssets="All" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools" Version="1.1.0" PrivateAssets="All" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets" Version="1.1.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug" Version="1.1.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design" Version="1.1.0" PrivateAssets="All" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <DotNetCliToolReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools.DotNet" Version="1.0.0" />
    <DotNetCliToolReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.SecretManager.Tools" Version="1.0.0" />
    <DotNetCliToolReference Include="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools" Version="1.0.0" />
  </ItemGroup>
  <ItemGroup>
    <Folder Include="Data\Commands\" />
    <Folder Include="Data\Queries\" />
    <Folder Include="wwwroot\images\" />
  </ItemGroup>

</Project>

Answer 1

1. Click 'Show All Files' in Solution Explorer
2. Right-click over 'wwwroot' select 'Exclude From Project'
3. Right-click over 'wwwroot' select 'Include in Project'