Using PowerShell to clean and zip a Solution folder

UK Application Development Consulting - PowerShell script to clean and zip a directory

“As part of my role I’m often sending sample code to customers. Sometimes this is a small snippet inline in an email, but often it will be a zipped up Visual Studio solution. Simply zipping up the folder as-is ends up including bin and obj directories which bloat the zip. Performing a clean in Visual Studio helps, but I ended up writing a PowerShell script to perform the directory clean. It turned out to be reasonably simply to put together:

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I thought using Shell.Application to execute the zip an interesting approach and one I wanted to capture for future reference. That and the script itself, as I still find myself in the “Zip My Solution” game at times… ;)

 

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