Exclude patterns behaving different in static evaluation and at runtime
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Description
Following up on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45964967/msbuild-itemgroup-exclude-doesnt-work-with-wildcards
Exclude patterns behave different at runtime than during static evaluation. For example:
```xml
```
produces:
```
$ dotnet msbuild
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 15.3.409.57025 for .NET Core
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
StaticallyFilteredItem: bin/GeneratedAssembly1.dll
StaticallyFilteredItem: bin/GeneratedAssembly2.dll
StaticallyFilteredItem: somefolder/somefile.txt
StaticallyFilteredItem: somefolder/somefile.exe
StaticallyFilteredItem: bin/anexe.exe
TargetFilteredItem: ../../References/AnotherFolder/ReferencedAssembly.dll
TargetFilteredItem: bin/GeneratedAssembly1.dll
TargetFilteredItem: bin/GeneratedAssembly2.dll
TargetFilteredItem: somefolder/somefile.txt
TargetFilteredItem: somefolder/somefile.exe
TargetFilteredItem: bin/anexe.exe
```
Is this by design and a desired behaviour or a bug?
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