Using robocopy with Visual Studio 2010 Post-build and Pre-build events

Question

Robocopy outputs 1 upon success, unlike most programs that exit with 0 on success. Visual Studio (and MSBUILD) interprets exit code of 1 as an error.

How can Robocopy b

Answer 1

With , being the copy source and target respectfully, and being robocopy options:

robocopy   
set rce=%errorlevel%
if not %rce%==1 exit %rce% else exit 0

For instance, if we want to copy the project target to c:\temp, without retries and with all sub-directories (empty or not), we'd use:

robocopy /R:0 /E $(TargetDir) c:\temp
set rce=%errorlevel%
if not %rce%==1 exit %rce% else exit 0