Is there a way to make user specific pre/post build events in Visual Studio projects?
I'm currently using a post build event in my project to copy my assemblies to another directory for debugging purposes. This is local to my machine, and is for debugging purposes only, so I would prefer to have it in a * .csproj.user file instead of a * .csproj file. I tried copying the responsible elements from the * .csproj to the * .csproj.user , but that didn't work. Edit To clarify, I do not want to put user specific commands in the post-build event in the * .csproj file. Instead, I want to put the post-build event commands in the * .csproj.user file. (From the answers so far, this is