diff --git a/pkg/generate/app/sourcelookup.go b/pkg/generate/app/sourcelookup.go
index 3ddd6bc63ff7..116a28f216e3 100644
--- a/pkg/generate/app/sourcelookup.go
+++ b/pkg/generate/app/sourcelookup.go
@@ -502,7 +502,7 @@ func (e SourceRepositoryEnumerator) Detect(dir string, noSourceDetection bool) (
 	// is docker or pipeline
 	if !noSourceDetection {
 		for _, d := range e.Detectors {
-			if detected, ok := d(dir); ok {
+			if detected := d(dir); detected != nil {
 				info.Types = append(info.Types, SourceLanguageType{
 					Platform: detected.Platform,
 					Version:  detected.Version,
diff --git a/pkg/generate/source/detector.go b/pkg/generate/source/detector.go
index 60ca1e8fe46c..cdf0bc360ab7 100644
--- a/pkg/generate/source/detector.go
+++ b/pkg/generate/source/detector.go
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 package source
 
-import (
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-)
+import "path/filepath"
 
 // Info is detected platform information from a source directory
 type Info struct {
@@ -13,7 +10,7 @@ type Info struct {
 
 // DetectorFunc is a function that returns source Info from a given directory.
 // It returns true if it was able to detect the code in the given directory.
-type DetectorFunc func(dir string) (*Info, bool)
+type DetectorFunc func(dir string) *Info
 
 // Detectors is a set of DetectorFunc that is used to detect the
 // language/platform for a given source directory
@@ -33,66 +30,56 @@ var DefaultDetectors = Detectors{
 }
 
 // DetectRuby detects Ruby source
-func DetectRuby(dir string) (*Info, bool) {
+func DetectRuby(dir string) *Info {
 	return detect("ruby", dir, "Gemfile", "Rakefile", "config.ru")
 }
 
 // DetectJava detects Java source
-func DetectJava(dir string) (*Info, bool) {
+func DetectJava(dir string) *Info {
 	return detect("jee", dir, "pom.xml")
 }
 
 // DetectNodeJS detects NodeJS source
-func DetectNodeJS(dir string) (*Info, bool) {
+func DetectNodeJS(dir string) *Info {
 	return detect("nodejs", dir, "app.json", "package.json")
 }
 
 // DetectPHP detects PHP source
-func DetectPHP(dir string) (*Info, bool) {
+func DetectPHP(dir string) *Info {
 	return detect("php", dir, "index.php", "composer.json")
 }
 
 // DetectPython detects Python source
-func DetectPython(dir string) (*Info, bool) {
+func DetectPython(dir string) *Info {
 	return detect("python", dir, "requirements.txt", "setup.py")
 }
 
 // DetectPerl detects Perl source
-func DetectPerl(dir string) (*Info, bool) {
+func DetectPerl(dir string) *Info {
 	return detect("perl", dir, "index.pl", "cpanfile")
 }
 
 // DetectScala detects Scala source
-func DetectScala(dir string) (*Info, bool) {
+func DetectScala(dir string) *Info {
 	return detect("scala", dir, "build.sbt")
 }
 
-// DetectDotNet detects .NET source and matches it to a dotnet supported annotatin or dotnet imagestream name
-func DetectDotNet(dir string) (*Info, bool) {
-	return detect("dotnet", dir, "project.json")
+// DetectDotNet detects .NET source and matches it to a dotnet supported annotation or dotnet imagestream name
+func DetectDotNet(dir string) *Info {
+	return detect("dotnet", dir, "project.json", "*.csproj")
 }
 
 // DetectLiteralDotNet detects .NET source and matches it to a .net supported annotation
-func DetectLiteralDotNet(dir string) (*Info, bool) {
-	return detect(".net", dir, "project.json")
+func DetectLiteralDotNet(dir string) *Info {
+	return detect(".net", dir, "project.json", "*.csproj")
 }
 
 // detect returns an Info object with the given platform if the source at dir contains any of the argument files
-func detect(platform string, dir string, files ...string) (*Info, bool) {
-	if filesPresent(dir, files) {
-		return &Info{
-			Platform: platform,
-		}, true
-	}
-	return nil, false
-}
-
-func filesPresent(dir string, files []string) bool {
-	for _, f := range files {
-		_, err := os.Stat(filepath.Join(dir, f))
-		if err == nil {
-			return true
+func detect(platform string, dir string, globs ...string) *Info {
+	for _, g := range globs {
+		if matches, _ := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(dir, g)); len(matches) > 0 {
+			return &Info{Platform: platform}
 		}
 	}
-	return false
+	return nil
 }