Copy all files and folders using msbuild

Question

Just wondering if someone could help me with some msbuild scripts that I am trying to write. What I would like to do is copy all the files and sub folders from a folder to

Answer 1

The best way to recursively copy files from one directory to another using MSBuild is using Copy task with SourceFiles and DestinationFiles as parameters. For example - To copy all files from build directory to back up directory will be

Build
Backup

Now in above Copy command all source directories are traversed and files are copied to destination directory.