Visual Studio post build events stuck waiting for executable to finish before running app in debug mode

Question

Part of the post build on my project is the execution of a program I wrote for testing the main application. Unfortunately, the post build process in visual studio locks up

Answer 1

I spent a considerable amount of time trying to figure this out. What you need to do is place "cmd" as the first line of your post-build event.

An example might look like this:

cmd
xcopy /Y $(ProjectDir)$(OutputDir)* C:\SomePath\*