Build .net core project by postbuild event in visual studio 2017

Question

I have project A which has dependency on project B but there is no reference from B to A. I want build and copy assemblies in bin folder of project B to bin folder of project A. how can I do this with post build event and dotnet msbuild.

I found this link but it works for VS 2015 and below and MS-Build:

Build another project by prebuild event without adding reference

Answer 1

how can I do this with post build event and dotnet msbuild

You can add Build task and copy task in the post build event in project A to achieve your request:

"$(MSBuildBinPath)\MSBuild.exe" "$(SolutionDir)ProjectB\ProjectB.csproj"
 xcopy.exe "$(SolutionDir)ProjectB\bin\Debug\netcoreapp1.1\ProjectB.dll" "$(SolutionDir)ProjectA\bin\Debug\netcoreapp1.1"

If you have multiple assemblies in the bin folder of project B, you can also use the Wildcard to copy the assemblies, like

xcopy.exe "$(SolutionDir)ProjectB\bin\Debug\netcoreapp1.1\*.dll

Hope this can help you.