How to temporarily disable build events in Visual Studio?

Question

Is there a way to temporarily disable pre and post build events?

i.e. build without build events (which are taking a bit of time but arent always crucial to run)

At the moment, I have minification and a couple of other things going on and I don't always need that.

Answer 1

Stuff like minimization only matters for the Release build. So you could skip it like this:

if "$(ConfigurationName)" == "Debug" goto skip
; stuff here...
:skip

There are some other macros you can use, click the Edit button and the Macro>> button to see them. Environment variables can be tested as well, use %varname%. But are much harder to set.