Project path or other macro in command-line parameters for console project in VS2010

Question

The debug tab of the project properties for a console application in VS2010 allows me to set command-line parameters to pass to the project whilst debugging.

I would like to set a parameter which is a path and the path is specific to each developer/machine, as it is a path which resides in the solution folder and each environment is different.

For pre- and post-build events, I can use macros such as $(ProjectDir), but I can't find a way to do this for command-line parameters - is there a way? A hack is fine, as long as it's not too awful!

Thanks

Answer 1

I haven't found a way to use $(ProjectDir) in the command line arguments, but you can access files contained within the project by:

• Tell Visual Studio to copy specific files to the output directory by changing their "Copy to Output Directory" property.
• Change your command line arguments from $(ProjectDir)/FileNeededDuringRuntime to FileNeededDuringRuntime.

This is more of a hack since it probably doesn't cover all the cases of using the variable, but it may get you by if you're just referencing a few files.