How to create custom clean (post-clean) event in Visual Studio 2008?

Question

In our build process, for each project we use Post Build events to copy our executable files into a separate deployment directory. That works just peachy, but the problem i

Answer 1

You can use the MSBuild target syntax in your csproj file. e.g

There is a neat way to edit your .csproj file directly in the Visual Studio IDE described in the MSBuild team blog, but this is my first post so I can only include one hyperlink. (briefly: Unload the project, then right-click on it to see the entry "Edit [project].csproj" ... your csproj will come up in the IDE as an xml file with intellisense on elements and attributes. Wonderful!)

A full list of custom Targets is here.