How to run Visual Studio post-build events for deb

Question

How can I limit my post-build events to running only for one type of build? I'm using the events to copy DLLs to a local IIS virtual directory but I don't want this happening on the build server in release mode.

Answer 1

Visual studio 2015: The correct syntax is (keep it on one line):

if "$(ConfigurationName)"=="My Debug CFG" ( xcopy "$(TargetDir)test1.tmp" "$(TargetDir)test.xml" /y) else ( xcopy "$(TargetDir)test2.tmp" "$(TargetDir)test.xml" /y)

No error 255 here.

Answer 2

This works for me in Visual Studio 2015.
I copy all dll-files from a folder located in a lib folder on the same level as my solution folder into the targetdirectory of the project being built.
Using a relative path from my project directory and going up the folder structure two steps with..\..\lib

MySolutionFolder
....MyProject
Lib

if $(ConfigurationName) == Debug (
xcopy /Y "$(ProjectDir)..\..\lib\*.dll" "$(TargetDir)"
) ELSE  (echo "Not Debug mode, no file copy from lib")

Answer 3

Like any project setting the buildevents can be configured per Configuration, just select the configuration you want to change in the dropdown of the Property Pages dialog and edit the post build step