Telling MSBuild (or Visual Studio) to copy files without including their full path
- From: Jo Vermeulen <jo.vermeulen@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 29 May 2007 05:00:24 -0700
Hello,
I have a solution with multiple project files in a single directory.
These projects all share a lot of source code files, so I don't want
them to end up in different directories. There is one solution
combining all the projects.
In one of the projects, I want to copy an input file which is stacked
two directories deep to the resulting output directory (which is the
same for every one of the projects).
The problem is that Visual Studio includes the full path when it
copies this file.
So for example, the file baz.xml which originally came from foo/bar/
baz.xml, is copied to bin/Debug/foo/bar/baz.xml, while my executable
is expecting it to be at the bin/Debug.
Is there any way to change this behaviour in Visual Studio itself or
perhaps with MSBuild?
The project is multi-platform, it should also work on Linux with the
Mono .NET runtime. Besides that, it should work on Windows and on the
Windows Mobile platform. The Mono guys are working on an MSBuild
implementation, so if possible, I would prefer this to be done within
the .csproj file.
One of the things I tried was the copy task, which works on a desktop
but fails when the solution has to be deployed to a mobile device.
I already posted this on the MSDN MSBuild forum, but didn't receive an
answer there:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx?postid=1632996
Thanks in advance!
-- Jo
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