VS Post Build Event, copy one level above solution folder?

Question

I currently have

  <PropertyGroup>
    <PostBuildEvent>copy "$(TargetPath)" "$(SolutionDir)Shared.Lib\$(TargetFileName)"</PostBuildEvent>
  </PropertyGroup>

I want to do something like this, but one level above $(SolutionDir)

Answer 1

You can use ..\\ to move up a directory.

 <PropertyGroup>
    <PostBuildEvent>copy "$(TargetPath)" "$(SolutionDir)..\Shared.Lib\$(TargetFileName)"</PostBuildEvent>
  </PropertyGroup>

Answer 2

Solution:

copy "$(TargetPath)" "$(SolutionDir)"..\"Shared.Lib\$(TargetFileName)"

If you have ..\\ within the quotation marks, it will take it as literal instead of running the DOS command up one level.

Answer 3

This is not working in VS2010 .. is not resolved but becomes part of the path

Studio is running command something like this copy drive$:\\a\\b\\bin\\debug drive$:\\a\\b..\\c

Answer 4

In .Net Core edit csproj file:

<Target Name="PostBuild" AfterTargets="PostBuildEvent">
  <Exec Command="copy /Y &quot;$(TargetPath)&quot; &quot;$(SolutionDir)&quot;..\&quot;lib\$(TargetFileName)&quot;" />
</Target>

/Y Suppresses prompting to confirm you want to overwrite an existing destination file.

Answer 5

xcopy "$(TargerDir) . " "$(SolutionDir)..\\Installer\\bin\\"

Note: "../" is used for One level up folder structure