SolutionDir set to *Undefined* in post-build xcopy event

Question

I have a project that has a post-build event that xcopies a DLLs to a certain directory:

xcopy \"$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).dll\" \"$(SolutionDir)..\\UdpLocationS         


        

Answer 1

I fixed this for problems with the Microsoft.SqlServer.Compact nuget package (which adds a similar post-build script), by adding:

..\

right above the . You'll want to adjust the relative path to match your project layout.