How to create custom clean (post-clean) event in Visual Studio 2008?

Question

In our build process, for each project we use Post Build events to copy our executable files into a separate deployment directory. That works just peachy, but the problem i

Answer 1

There is no documented way to insert custom cleanup steps, unfortunately. You can clean up your output in your pre-build event but that will still leave artifacts around just after a clean.

From MSDN, here is the order of invocation for the various build steps:

1. Pre-Build event
2. Custom build steps on individual files
3. Proxy generator
4. MIDL
5. Resource compiler
6. The C/C++ compiler
7. Pre-Link event
8. Linker or Librarian (as appropriate)
9. BSCMake
10. Custom build step on the project
11. Deployment tool.

12. Post-Build event

    MSDN: Understanding custom build steps