Question

Usually, visual studio puts output files to bin/debug or bin/release.

When solution contains a large number of projects its not easy to modify each project output manually.

Also edits in csproj files no desirable, because some of them is shared between solutions..

My questions: Is anybody knows a tool, which can quickly configure output path ?

UPDATE: my problem solved by TFS Build

Answer 1

Presumably you have at least one project in each solution that is unique to that solution. In the Post-Build event of that, copy the contents of each project’s output to the required location.

We often to this using a batch file. It’s crude but effective. In our project that’s unique to the solution we create a Release.bat file. This contains a number of file copies to copy all of the required components from the various output directories of the other projects. You can then just run the batch file in the post build event. We usually copy everything to a “Latest Release” fodler when the solution is built. If this becomes a proper release we will rename the Latest Release folder to the actual release number.

If you have multiple build configurations, or even just use the Debug and Release configurations, you can use an If statement in the Post-Build event to decide which batch file to run. So you could create a Debug.bat, Release.bat etc which do what you need. It can be tedious to set them up and get them working correctly at first, but they are very useful once fully implemented.