| Author: |
Carlos J. Quintero (Microsoft MVP) |
Applies to: |
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 |
| Date: |
July 2009 |
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Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 |
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 |
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 |
Introduction
A Visual Studio project can have several project configurations, each one with a
different output build folder that is set in the project properties window,
Compile/Build section, Build output path. Furthermore, the output build folder
can be absolute or relative to the project folder.
More Information
The following macro gets the absolute output build folder for the active configuration of
each project of a solution.
| Language: VB.NET |  Copy Code (IE only) |
Sub Macro1()
Dim proj As EnvDTE.Project
For Each proj In DTE.Solution.Projects
GetProjectOutputBuildFolder(proj)
Next
End Sub
Sub GetProjectOutputBuildFolder(ByVal proj As EnvDTE.Project)
Dim activeConfiguration As EnvDTE.Configuration
Dim configManager As EnvDTE.ConfigurationManager
Dim outputPath As String
Dim absoluteOutputPath As String
Dim projectFolder As String
Try
' Get the configuration manager of the project
configManager = proj.ConfigurationManager
If configManager Is Nothing Then
MessageBox.Show("The project " & proj.Name & " doesn't have a configuration manager")
Else
' Get the active project configuration
activeConfiguration = configManager.ActiveConfiguration
' Get the output folder
outputPath = activeConfiguration.Properties.Item("OutputPath").Value.ToString()
' The output folder can have these patterns:
' 1) "\\server\folder"
' 2) "drive:\folder"
' 3) "..\..\folder"
' 4) "folder"
If outputPath.StartsWith(IO.Path.DirectorySeparatorChar & IO.Path.DirectorySeparatorChar) Then
' This is the case 1: "\\server\folder"
absoluteOutputPath = outputPath
ElseIf outputPath.Length >= 2 AndAlso outputPath.Chars(1) = IO.Path.VolumeSeparatorChar Then
' This is the case 2: "drive:\folder"
absoluteOutputPath = outputPath
ElseIf outputPath.IndexOf("..\") <> -1 Then
' This is the case 3: "..\..\folder"
projectFolder = IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(proj.FullName)
Do While outputPath.StartsWith("..\")
outputPath = outputPath.Substring(3)
projectFolder = IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(projectFolder)
Loop
absoluteOutputPath = IO.Path.Combine(projectFolder, outputPath)
Else
' This is the case 4: "folder"
projectFolder = IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(proj.FullName)
absoluteOutputPath = IO.Path.Combine(projectFolder, outputPath)
End If
MessageBox.Show("Output folder of " & proj.Name & ": " & absoluteOutputPath)
End If
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.ToString)
End Try
End Sub
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