During my build process I'm trying to copy a folder to the artifacts folder (\myserver\d$\TFBuild-Agent01\66\a).
So I put this in the .csproj file:
<Target Name="BeforeBuild">
<Exec
Command="xcopy.exe Databases "$(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory)\Databases" /i /e /y /d" />
</Target>
This gets me
Error MSB4184: The expression """.ArtifactStagingDirectory" cannot be evaluated. Method 'System.String.ArtifactStagingDirectory' not found*
Everything I can find online says that $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory) is the way to do it. But it doesn't work.
Building with Visual Studio 2015 on TFS 2015
This doesn't work either:
<Exec
Command="xcopy.exe Databases "$($Env:BUILD_ARTIFACTSTAGINGDIRECTORY)\Databases" /i /e /y /d" />
The expression "$Env:BUILD_ARTIFACTSTAGINGDIRECTORY" cannot be evaluated.*
This doesn't error, but it looks like %BUILD_ARTIFACTSTAGINGDIRECTORY% gets replaced as an empty string:
<Exec Command="xcopy.exe Databases "%BUILD_ARTIFACTSTAGINGDIRECTORY%\Databases" /i /e /y /d" />