Using Enterprise Library? Use a Post Build Event for pain-free config file copying

Using a post-build event can be a time saver. You can create command lines in the project property pages (right-click the project, say your winform or console, in the solution explorer and then choose 'Properties'). Under common properties, choose 'Build Events'. Then click the ellipsis beside Post-build Command Line.

In this dialog, you can run commands and call other programs. For this topic, enter this simple one-liner to have all those Enterprise Library config files nicely copied to your output directory:

copy $(ProjectDir)*.config $(ProjectDir)$(OutDir)