Pre Build Event: Copy Folder and it's SubFolders and files into Build Directory using XCopy

Question

I have Window Application and I have some plugins & it\'s ChildPlugins which I placed in My Application folder structure(see folder structure image). I used SVN as sour

Answer 1

I have used this:

xcopy "$(ProjectDir)MyFolder\*.*" "$(SolutionDir)ConsoleApplication1\bin\Release\MyFolder" /Y /I /E

And worked fine, the folder 'MyFolder' appear into my 'Release' folder when I compile the project with all the documents in it.

Something to point out here is that the path that is after $(SolutionDir) would change depending of the name of your solution, my solution is ConsoleApplication1.

Answer 2

Better if it doesn't require a path with solution name or configuration type:

xcopy "$(ProjectDir)MyFolder\*.*" "$(TargetDir)\MyFolder" /Y /I /E

Answer 3

Here is an example of copying Assets folder (located in the project folder) into bin(debug or release ...)\Assets

<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
    <Exec Command="xcopy &quot;$(ProjectDir)Assets\*.*&quot; &quot;$(ProjectDir)bin\$(Configuration)\Assets&quot; /Y /I /E" />
</Target>

Note, double quotes are replaced with a special word

Answer 4

You need to add the /E switch to copy subdirectories (including Empty ones).