CODEWITHSUNDEEP
visual-studio-2010
Joker_vD
Joker_vD

Reputation: 3775

Setting up output paths in Visual Studio

I am going to have a fairly large solution, with many projects in it, and there are reasons while I my folders with source code in it must have no .obj or .exe or .dll files at any point. So, I came up with this structure:

SolutionDirectory
 |- MainProject
     |- MainProject.csproj
     |- Main.cs
     ...
 |- FirstSlaveProject
     |- FirstSlaveProject.csproj
     ...
 |- SecondSlaveProject
     |- SecondSlaveProject.csproj
 ...
 |- BuildFolder
     |- MainProject
         |- bin
         |- obj
     |- FirstSlaveProject
         |- bin
         |- obj
     |- SecondSlaveProject
         |- bin
         |- obj
     ...

The idea is that all source files are inside projects' folders, and all binaries go to "BuildFolder", sorted by project's name. Seems pretty reasonable, right?

So, I reckon when I create a new project inside my solution, I have to write somewhere something like this: %SolutionFolder%\BuildFolder\%ProjectName%\%ProjectConfigName%\bin" and "%SolutionFolder%\BuildFolder\%ProjectName%\%ProjectConfigName%\obj.

So, where exactly do I write this (and I hope I don't have to write it for each Debug, Release, UnstableSpeedup, etc. configuration separately!), and how exactly? I doubt Visual Studio will recognize %SolutionFolder.

Is there maybe some sort of a shell script, or a Visual Studio addin, or whatever?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 715

Answers (2)

Joker_vD
Joker_vD

Reputation: 3775

I open the .csproj file and insert this:

<PropertyGroup>
  <OutputPath>$(SolutionDir)BuildFolder\$(MSBuildProjectName)\$(Configuration)-$(Platform)\bin\</OutputPath>
  <IntermediateOutputPath>$(SolutionDir)BuildFolder\$(MSBuildProjectName)\$(Configuration)-$(Platform)\obj\</IntermediateOutputPath>
</PropertyGroup>

after the last PropertyGroup tag.

I tested it, and the EXE file indeed appeared inside "SolutionDirectory\BuildFolder\MainProject\Debug-x86\bin", and all intermediate stuff went to "SolutionDirectory\BuildFolder\MainProject\Debug-x86\obj". Visual Studio still creates an empty "obj" directory inside my source tree though... whatever, since it's empty, it's not a big deal.

Upvotes: 0

Alex Schultz
Alex Schultz

Reputation: 210

Once the project is created, right click on the project, then click Properties. On the build tab is a box for the output path.

I don't know if there is a way to automate it for each project.

Upvotes: 1

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