IT:AD:RoboCopy
Summary
- Stands for
Robust Copy
* first included in Windows Vista- (ie, not available on Windows Server 2003 and XP).
* HELP:
ROBOCOPY /?
Copy, Excluding Files
Equivalent of
C:\WINDOWS\system32\xcopy.exe "$(TargetDir)*.*" "$(SolutionDir)_CompiledAssemblies\$(ConfigurationName)\" /E /Y /R
is
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ROBOCOPY.exe "$(TargetDir)" "$(SolutionDir)_CompiledAssemblies\$(ConfigurationName)" /E /CREATE /XF *.tmp /V
But it has trouble being used in Visual Studio Build events due to it returning non-1 if success…which VS interprets as failure.
- http://anotherlab.rajapet.net/2010/05/using-robocopy-with-visual-studio-2008.html
That said, I did use it once. See .