Visual Studio Build Events

Build Events in VS

• Set environment variable and use it post-build
• Create new environment variable EXECUTION_ROOT provide file path to it
• Add the following to the post-build event, and it will copy all the files in Output directory to the given path EXECUTION_ROOT. 
• This speed-up executing a project when you have multiple DLLs or libs
• XCOPY "$(OutDir)*.*" "$(EXECUTION_ROOT)plugins" /S /Y

 

• Copy output files (dll/lib/pdb)to execution location after build is completed

 

• Macros can be used aswell in build events
• $(OutDir)
• $(EXECUTION_ROOT) - environment variable
• $(ProjectDir)
• $(SolutionDir)