Visual Studio Pre-build Event/Post-build Events Working Directory

Question

It's not clear from the documentation what the working directory is for pre-build or post-build events in Visual Studio. What is it? Where is this documented?

Bugger

Answer 1

The working directory is the bin directory of the project.

I was unable to find documentation, but I tested this by making a post build event that made a directory. Then I checked where it was created.

Bugger

More specifically, it is bin\$(ConfigurationName)\netcoreapp1.1 (or whatever your sdk resolves to). – Hereof

Answer 2

For future reference, to find the execution directory, you could also enter:

"start cd"

in the Pre-Build event command line area.

This will open a command prompt in the current path after saving and triggering a build.

Also, the directory will be pointing in the \bin\debug|release.

Illiquid

+1 I do not have a bin directory, but with this I was able to discover that the Pre-Build event's working directory is the one containing my *.vcxproj file. – Whitcher