Visual Studio 2008 - Moving files at build to bin/

Question

EDIT: This is a VS2008 app written in C#.

So I have a folder in my solution called

_lib/ 

It\'s where I keep my DL

Answer 1

Try following these steps in Visual Studio:

• Expand the project tree concerned

• Double click the Properties element

• In the opened window click the Build Events tab

• In the Post-build event command line text area place this:

  xcopy "$(ProjectDir)_lib\file.ext" "$(ProjectDir)bin\$(ConfigurationName)"
  

• Open the expected output folder alongside Visual Studio

• Hit CTRL+Shift+B to make sure everything is saved and build

• Feel the sense of achievement well up inside you as your file appears

• :)

Oh, and you can now set Copy to output directory to Do not copy.