Excluding and including Sitecore Assemblies in Helix publishing pipeline solution

If you have a Sitecore Visual Studio solution inspired by Helix Example and tried source control the Sitecore assemblies or Hotfix assemblies and are unable to copy it to the deploy folder then this post explains how we can publish the same to the deploy folder and we will try to understand how it works.

Sitecore Helix is a set of official guidelines and recommended practices for Sitecore Development. I believe we often take reference and reuse code from Helix Example to develop the new Sitecore VS solution for a new project. Good to read the intended usage. and recent Update on Development Practices for Headless Projects.

Challenge:

Since the Webroot bin has the Sitecore assemblies already, we usually don’t need to send Sitecore assemblies or the assemblies that are already there in the bin to avoid unnecessary version conflicts in deployment and to keep build artifacts lighter. When ...