Visual Studio 2017: Cancel build in pre build event

Question

I can't seem to find whether it is possible in Visual Studio to cancel a build by checking something in a pre build event. Is this possible? If so: how?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I can use exit /b 1 . It intentionally causes the pre-build event to fail by setting the %errorlevel% to 1, stopping the build. The error message is not great.