Copy file s from one project to another using post build event VS2010

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I have a solution with 3 projects in it  I need to copy a view from one project to another  I m able to copy the created DLL via post build events like so     So i want to copy the file in project one   Views ModuleHome Index cshtml  to a folder in project 2  How do I copy file s  to my desired project via post-build event  Thanks

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Call Batch file which will run Xcopy for required files source to destination  call    SolutionDir scripts copyifnewer bat

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xcopy    ProjectDir Views Home Index cshtml     SolutionDir MEFMVCPOC Views Home    and if you want to copy entire folders   xcopy  E  Y    ProjectDir Views     SolutionDir MEFMVCPOC Views      Update  here s the working version  xcopy    ProjectDir Views ModuleAHome Index cshtml     SolutionDir MEFMVCPOC Views ModuleAHome    Y  I   Here are some commonly used switches with xcopy          I - treat as a directory if copying multiple files     Q - Do not display the files being copied     S - Copy subdirectories unless empty     E - Copy empty subdirectories     Y - Do not prompt for overwrite of existing files     R - Overwrite read-only files

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I use it like this   xcopy    TargetDir   TargetName  dll     SolutionDir Lib TIRM x86    F  Y  xcopy    TargetDir   TargetName  lib     SolutionDir Lib TIRM x86    F  Y     F   Copy source is File     Y   Overwrite and don t ask me   Note the use of this    TargetDir   has already      D  MyProject bin       TargetDir   You can find macro in Command editor

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If you want to take into consideration the platform  x64  x86 etc  and the configuration  Debug or Release  it would be something like this   xcopy    SolutionDir    Platform    Configuration    TargetName  dll     SolutionDir TestDirectory bin   Platform    Configuration     F  Y

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This command works like a charm for me   for  r    SolutionDir libraries    f in    dll    exe  do  xcopy    f     TargetDir     It recursively copies every dll and exe file from MySolutionPath libraries into the bin debug or bin release   You can find more info in here

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xcopy     TargetDir    TargetExt      SolutionDir  Scripts MigrationScripts Library     F  R  Y  I   F     Displays full source  amp  target file names   R     This will overwrite read-only files   Y     Suppresses prompting to overwrite an existing file s    I     Assumes that destination is directory  but must ends with    A little trick     in target you must end with character   to tell xcopy that target is directory and not file

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xcopy  your-source-path   your-destination-path   D  y  s  r  exclude path-to-txt- file ExcludedFilesList txt   Notice the quotes in source path and destination path  but not in path to exludelist txt file   Content of ExcludedFilesList txt is the following   cs   I m using this command to copy file from one project in my solution  to another and excluding  cs files    D Copy only files that are modified in sourcepath  y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file   s Copies directories and subdirectories except empty ones   r Overwrites read-only files

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Like the previous replies  I m also suggesting xcopy  However  I would like to add to Hallgeir Engen s answer with the  exclude parameter  There seems to be a bug with the parameter preventing it from working with path names that are long or that contain spaces  as quotes will not work  The path names need to be in the  DOS -format with  Documents  translating to  DOCUME 1   according to this source    So  if you want to use the  exclude parameter  there is a workaround here   cd   SolutionDir  xcopy  source-relative-to-path-above   destination-relative-to-path-above  exclude exclude-file-relative-path   Note that the source and destination paths can  and should  if they contain spaces  be within quotes  but not the path to the exclude file

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