What does this funnelweb command mean in visual studio? and why did it exit with 4?

Question

In visual studio on the post build event command line I have the following:

 xcopy $(TargetPath) $(SolutionDir)FunnelWeb.Web\bin\Extensions\ /Y

and its creating the error:

 Error 1 The command "xcopy C:\\Users\\Exitos\\Desktop\\FunnelWeb-2.0.2.572-source\\src\\FunnelWeb.Extensions.MetaWeblog\\bin\\Debug\\FunnelWeb.Extensions.MetaWeblog.dll 

C:\\Users\\Exitos\\Desktop\\FunnelWeb-2.0.2.572-source\\src\\FunnelWeb.Web\\bin\\Extensions\\ /Y xcopy C:\\Users\\Exitos\\Desktop\\FunnelWeb-2.0.2.572-source\\src\\FunnelWeb.Extensions.MetaWeblog\\bin\\Debug\\CookComputing.XmlRpcV2.dll C:\\Users\\Exitos\\Desktop\\FunnelWeb-2.0.2.572-source\\src\\FunnelWeb.Web\\bin\\Extensions\\ /Y" exited with code 4. FunnelWeb.Extensions.MetaWeblog

Im confused as to where the $(TargetPath) and $(SolutionDir) are set, and why this error happened?

Answer 1

xcopy exit codes can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/xcopy.mspx?mfr=true

I suspect the problem is that you need double quotes around your paths:

xcopy "$(TargetPath)" "$(SolutionDir)FunnelWeb.Web\bin\Extensions" /Y

Becouse of spaces inside your path.

When you open a .sln, $(SolutionDir) is the directory where it came from. If you want to change it, move the root folder for your .sln file.

Hope it helps.