Visual Studio Post Build Event - Copy to Relative Directory Location

On a successful build, I wish to copy the contents of the output directory to a different location under the same "base" folder. This parent folder is a relative part and can vary based on Source Control settings.

I have listed a few of the Macro values available to me ...

$(SolutionDir) = D:\GlobalDir\Version\AppName\Solution1\build

$(ProjectDir) = D:\GlobalDir\Version\AppName\Solution1\Version\ProjectA\

I want to copy the Output Dir contents to the following folder :

D:\GlobalDir\Version\AppName\Solution2\Project\Dependency

The base location "D:\GlobalDir\Version\AppName" needs to be fetched from one of the above macros. However, none of the macro values list only the parent location.

How do I extract only the base location for the post build copy command ?

Here is what you want to put in the project's Post-build event command line:

copy /Y "$(TargetDir)$(ProjectName).dll" "$(SolutionDir)lib\$(ProjectName).dll"

EDIT: Or if your target name is different than the Project Name.

copy /Y "$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).dll" "$(SolutionDir)lib\$(TargetName).dll"

If none of the TargetDir or other macros point to the right place, use the ".." directory to go backwards up the folder hierarchy.

ie. Use $(SolutionDir)\..\.. to get your base directory.

For list of all macros, see here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c02as0cs.aspx

You could try:

$(SolutionDir)..\..\