MSBuild: Copier un dossier avec wildcards

This is a little trick to copy files from a regular expression with MSBuild.

With this example it becomes possible to use wildcards to identity to elements to copy.

<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
[...]
<ItemGroup>
  <\_FoldersToCopy Include="$(ProjectDir)MyFolder\*TargetFolderSuffix\*.ext" />
</ItemGroup>
<Copy SourceFiles="@(_FoldersToCopy)"
  DestinationFolder="@(_FoldersToCopy->'$(TargetDir)MyFolder\%(RecursiveDir)')" />
[...]
</Target>

This is very useful when you application uses a plugin pattern and you wish to copy all the libraries to the output directory.

Remarques

If you put the itemGroup outside of the BeforeBuild target, Visual Studio will erase it when csproj is saved.
Sources : (https://msdn.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/3e54c37h.aspx)[ Copy Task sur MSDN]

Christian Finel/MSBuild: Copier un dossier avec wildcards

Remarques