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Kervin Ramen
Kervin Ramen

Reputation: 2583

Output path for build in visual studio 2010

I need to output the project dll in program files. "$(PROGRAMFILES)\Microsoft..." It is not building in program files, but in the project itself in a folder called "$(PROGRAMFILES)"!

How do I build in program files??

Upvotes: 10

Views: 16780

Answers (5)

The E
The E

Reputation: 31

And if you just made a new environment variable, reload visual studio as well, else it will use 'C:\' instead of your variable content.

Upvotes: 3

Jon
Jon

Reputation: 437734

  1. In Solution Explorer, right click your project, click "Unload Project"
  2. After the project unloads, right click on it again, click "Edit MYPROJECT.csproj"
  3. In the XML editor window that opens, change <OutputPath> elements to <OutputPath>$(ProgramFiles)</OutputPath> -- either all of them, or only those for the configurations that interest you
  4. Save and close
  5. Right click on project again, choose "Reload Project"
  6. Done!

Upvotes: 21

PhilMY
PhilMY

Reputation: 2651

You need to open the csproj file in a text editor and manually enter your environment variables in the OutputPath section. Visual Studio escapes the '$', '(' and ')' when you try to do this from the IDE.

Upvotes: 0

JeffSahol
JeffSahol

Reputation: 971

This sounds like a good case for a post-build event that copies the project output to the folder you want:

copy $(TargetPath) $(PROGRAMFILES)\Microsoft...

Upvotes: 1

Praneeth
Praneeth

Reputation: 2547

right click on project select properties. Select Build tab you have output section

In output path give the specific path for you program file/microsoft. This should work. I Tested it.

Upvotes: 0

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