Visual Studio Post Build Event - Copy to Relative Directory Location

Question

On a successful build, I wish to copy the contents of the output directory to a different location under the same "base" folder. This parent folder is a relative part and can vary based on Source Control settings.

I have listed a few of the Macro values available to me ...

$(SolutionDir) = D:GlobalDirVersionAppNameSolution1uild

$(ProjectDir) = D:GlobalDirVersionAppNameSolution1VersionProjectA

I want to copy the Output Dir contents to the following folder :

D:GlobalDirVersionAppNameSolution2ProjectDependency

The base location "D:GlobalDirVersionAppName" needs to be fetched from one of the above macros. However, none of the macro values list only the parent location.

How do I extract only the base location for the post build copy command ?

Answer 1

Here is what you want to put in the project's Post-build event command line:

copy /Y "$(TargetDir)$(ProjectName).dll" "$(SolutionDir)lib$(ProjectName).dll"

EDIT: Or if your target name is different than the Project Name.

copy /Y "$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).dll" "$(SolutionDir)lib$(TargetName).dll"