The Blog of Zachary Snow » Visual Studio http://zacharysnow.net Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:41:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Visual Studio: Move referenced DLL to different directory after Build http://zacharysnow.net/2010/07/20/visual-studio-move-referenced-dll-to-different-directory-after-build/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=visual-studio-move-referenced-dll-to-different-directory-after-build http://zacharysnow.net/2010/07/20/visual-studio-move-referenced-dll-to-different-directory-after-build/#comments Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:16:37 +0000 Zachary http://zacharysnow.net/?p=337 If you need to move a referenced DLL to a different directory after build, add these commands to the “Post Build event command line” box in the “Build Events” tab of the project properties:

mkdir $(TargetDir)dir
move $(TargetDir)myDLL.dll $(TargetDir)dir\myDLL.dll
]]> http://zacharysnow.net/2010/07/20/visual-studio-move-referenced-dll-to-different-directory-after-build/feed/ 0 Changing the PlatformTarget in Visual C# Express http://zacharysnow.net/2010/01/18/changing-the-platformtarge-in-visual-c-express/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=changing-the-platformtarge-in-visual-c-express http://zacharysnow.net/2010/01/18/changing-the-platformtarge-in-visual-c-express/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:08:04 +0000 Zachary http://zacharysnow.net/?p=279 Continue reading →]]> Some project types in Visual C# Express (Empty Project) will not allow you to change the PlatformTarget from the UI. You can still change the target platform though by editing the .csproj file in a text editor. Close the project and open it up in your favorite text editor (I use Notpad++). The .csproj file is really just a XML file. You should see somewhere in the file something like:

	<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
		....
	</PropertyGroup>
	<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
		....
	</PropertyGroup>

Inside the PropertyGroup elements, add the PlatformTarget element:

	<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|AnyCPU' ">
		....
		<PlatformTarget>x86*</PlatformTarget>
	</PropertyGroup>
	<PropertyGroup Condition=" '$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Release|AnyCPU' ">
		....
		<PlatformTarget>x86</PlatformTarget>
	</PropertyGroup>

Save the file and open your project back up. Your project’s output should now target only x86.

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