I encountered the same problem. It seems to be a problem with the path environment variable within Visual Studio. When I added a “path” statement to the beginning of my build event, it produced the following output: PATH= This seems to indicate that the path is empty within the VS build environment. When I specify … Read more
I have good results with xcopy /d. It will copy NEWER files, and since we can assume that existing files have same time-stamp, you will copy only files that don’t exist.
Answer to use “/I” is working but with little trick – in target you must end with character \ to tell xcopy that target is directory and not file! Example: xcopy “$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).dll” “$(SolutionDir)_DropFolder” /F /R /Y /I does not work and return code 2, but this one: xcopy “$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).dll” “$(SolutionDir)_DropFolder\” /F /R /Y /I Command … Read more