I haven't really seen anything that says you must do it one way or the other,
but it seems like the exclude attribute doesn't work if you specify your path
using / instead of \

Here's a quick example

<CuyahogaProjFiles Include="Vendor/Cuyahoga/*/*.csproj"

Exclude="Vendor/Cuyahoga/Yaf/Cuyahoga.Modules.YetAnotherForum.csproj" />

When i use backslashes (\) the file is excluded, when i use forward (/) it
is not...is this by design?

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