Multiple Pre-Build Events in Visual Studio?

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Kirschstein picture Kirschstein · Sep 24, 2009 · Viewed 21.8k times · Source

I've followed a blog post by Scott Hanselman for managing configuration with PreBuild Events and have it working fine.

I now want to split up my configuration into a couple of different files, so need to exectue the command again before the build. The problem is the PreBuild event text all gets executed as one console command. How can I split it up as several commands?

Answer

Kirschstein picture Kirschstein · Sep 24, 2009

Turns out the problem is Scott's example doesn't include the call command at the start of the line. This is fine as long as you don't want to execute the .bat file multiple times with different parameters.

This:

call "$(ProjectDir)copyifnewer.bat" "$(ProjectDir)connectionStrings.config.$(ConfigurationName)" "$(ProjectDir)connectionStrings.config"
call "$(ProjectDir)copyifnewer.bat" "$(ProjectDir)appSettings.config.$(ConfigurationName)" "$(ProjectDir)appSettings.config"

worked fine for me.

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