pre-build-event

I have a Pre-build event on a web project that minifies and concatenates javascript files using node. This creates a folder called BuiltScripts in the scripts folder that is a duplicate of the scripts folder except the files are minified. When I am doing a deploy I want to publish the scripts folder including the BuiltScripts folder within it. To achieve this I have added the BuiltScripts folder to the project. This is not an ideal solution as: I have to have the BuiltScripts folder checked out in order to build as the files in it are read only as the solution is under source control. This

I want to run a batch script every time before starting program for debugging. For the build events, such functionality is realized using pre-build event, post-build event. For actual debugging, I could not find any pre-Debug, post-Debug events. How to realize this scenario? I am using VS2008, .net framework 3.5, c# application. I am opposed to idea of creating some extra lines of code within the application that would fire-up external batch file. Reddog I realise you wished to avoid additional code, but in your Main function you could use Debugger.IsAttached() to kick off your work for you.

In Visual Studio, can someone point me to a list of available pre- and post-build events parameters? eg. $(TargetDir) , etc. Tschareck There you go: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/42x5kfw4(v=vs.80).aspx VS 2015 version Zanon This link provides the complete and updated list. However, if it breaks, this answer will be lost. Currently, for VS 2015, we have: $(ConfigurationName) The name of the current project configuration, for example, "Debug|Any CPU". $(OutDir) Path to the output file directory, relative to the project directory. This resolves to the value for the Output Directory

My solution has a bunch of projects one of which is a windows service; I have a prebuild step to stop the service and a postbuild step to restart it (this way the windows service exe is not locked when VS is building/overwriting it). on pre-build: net stop myservice on post-build: net start myservice If the service is not running while I'm starting the build, the net stop command fails and that prevents the build from proceeding. What can I do to still force the build even if the pre-build step failed? I figured it out - you simply need to add the following statement at the end: SET ERRORLEVEL

I am trying to delete files in my $(TargetDir) within visual studio before building a project. How do you have to format command line to get around this problem I am getting below? Try cd $(TargetDir) del *.tif As jvenema pointed out, your $(TargetDir) is expanding into a path containing spaces in the folder names which is breaking the delete command. I ended up using rd /s /q "$(TargetDir)" to clean out the directory. As far as I know it is working. Try adding quotes around the directory. You have to write del "$(TargetDir)*.tif" because of spaces in directory path. Old question but a couple

I'm busy automating our builds to include the svn revision number. We're using Delphi 2010. I added a pre-build event calling a batch file that injects the the svn revision number (read from the entries file in the .svn directory) and a specified version number into aVersionInfo.rc that is compiled with my project. The pre-build event looks like this: call SetVersionInfo.bat 6 5 4 ...and the batch file (hope someone finds this useful)... @ECHO OFF SETLOCAL setLocal EnableDelayedExpansion SET _myVar=0 FOR /F %%G in (.svn\entries.) DO ( IF !_myVar! LSS 3 SET /A _myVar+=1 & SET _svn_dir_rev=%%G )

I have a solution in Visual Studio which contains several projects. I'd like to run a command at the very beginning of every build - no matter which projects are involved and whether or not they are up-to-date. Essentially I need something similar to a solution-wide pre-build event, but unfortunately VS does not appear to support these. Does anyone know an alternative way of achieving what I need? Hans Passant Unusual requirement. But it can be done. Add a new project to your solution, use the Visual C++ > General > Makefile Project template. Set its NMake > Build Command Line setting to the