Wildcard expansion is silently disabled when a glob expansion encounters an I/O exception
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Description
This was reported as [a Connect issue](http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/2116449/msbuild-fails-to-find-files-in-directory-with-huge-sub-directory).
The repro is simple:
``` xml
```
Where there are files in `MyDir\node_modules` that exceed `MAX_PATH`. That returns:
```
C:\Users\raines\Downloads>msbuild test.proj
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 14.0.24720.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Build started 12/16/2015 12:46:15 PM.
Project "C:\Users\raines\Downloads\test.proj" on node 1 (default targets).
C:\Users\raines\Downloads\test.proj(8,3): warning : Inputs = MyDir\**\*.*
Done Building Project "C:\Users\raines\Downloads\test.proj" (default targets).
Build succeeded.
```
Note that the wildcards weren't actually expanded.
The original issue mentions an expectation that the `Exclude` element would prevent this from happening because that directory and all its contents are excluded. The reason that doesn't work is because we build the `Include` list fully first, then build the `Exclude` list, then do a subtraction. The failure occurs when building the `Include` list, so `Exclude` has no effect.
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