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Asked: 2026-06-01T15:18:19+00:00

I have the following in a prebuild event: copy /y $(ProjectDir)ThirdPartyAssemblies\ $(TargetDir) Which results

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I have the following in a prebuild event:

copy /y $(ProjectDir)ThirdPartyAssemblies\ $(TargetDir)

Which results in the following error:

The command “copy /y C:\Users\myusername\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\mysolution\myproject\ThirdPartyAssemblies* C:\Users\myusername\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\mysolution\myproject\bin\Debug\” exited with code 1.

I’ve tried it in a post build event too and get the same error. Yet when I run the command it results in (the one in the error) in a console window it works fine. What am I doing wrong?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure if it’s related to the error you’re receiving, but you need to place quotes around your path/file names since there are spaces in them.

    copy /y “C:\Users\myusername\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\mysolution\myproject\ThirdPartyAssemblies*” “C:\Users\myusername\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Projects\mysolution\myproject\bin\Debug\”

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