MSbuild Copy whole folder

Question

trying to copy a whole folder, but when i do this:

Answer 1

For me what worked was this: - kept folder structure - copied all files within the folder - works for any folder, doesn't have to be in the project or the same project folder

<ItemGroup>
    <_CopyItems Include="<path relative to project>\**\*.*" />
</ItemGroup>

<Target Name="AfterBuild">
  <Copy SourceFiles="@(_CopyItems)" DestinationFiles="@(_CopyItems->'$(OutDir)\<output folder>\%(RecursiveDir)%(Filename)%(Extension)')"/>
</Target>

legend:

• <path relative to project>: this could be any path, using ..\ for going above the proj folder works
• <output folder>: folder you want the whole file structure to be dropped into, excluding the source folder.
• $(OutDir) will be bin\Debug or whatever build mode you have, if you want something else, change that.