Visual Studio Build Event Immediately Return

Question

I have a somewhat long-running post-build event (long enough to be annoying to wait for but short enough to be finished after each release compilation) that I want to return immediately to VS. I've tried to run batch files with start but visual studio still waits for the cmd window to close before returning success.

Is there a way to immediately return success when spawning this post-build event?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This question seems to think that there is a way:

powershell start-process <actual-command-line-to-run>

Haven't tested it myself though.