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

Syntactically here is a one-line-per-command version that works directly within the PreBuild steps:

(robocopy "$(ProjectDir)..\Dir1" "$(ProjectDir)Dir1" "Match.*" /a+:R) ^& IF %ERRORLEVEL% GEQ 8 exit 1
(robocopy "$(ProjectDir)..\Dir2" "$(ProjectDir)Dir2" "Match.*" /a+:R) ^& IF %ERRORLEVEL% GEQ 8 exit 1
exit 0

References:

• @OhadSchneider answer for GEQ 8
• This answer on why exit 0 needs to be at the end.