I am trying to add these lines to the application's Build Events
xcopy debug.settings settings.settings
In order to acees the debug.settings as Default, but I am getting a exited with code 4 error when compiling. I have read code 4 would probably mean that it cannot find the specified files. But how would I reference debug.settings?
I have this file as part of my application's properties:
I got this idea from a stackoverflow question: .NET different application settings for development and release This would be a followup question based on its answer.
This is likely because xcopy
cannot find the source and destination paths for the settings files. Try updating them to the fully qualified path (i.e. C:\SomeFolder\MyProject\debug.settings
).
Also, check out the documentation when in doubt (or looking for what error codes mean).
As an aside, if you are simply looking for a way to change values in an app.config or web.config based on your build configuration, take a look at SlowCheetah.