For my work I have to define a pre build event in a powershell script, which will be added to the target project that I install the NuGet package in. The script installs fine the first time, the pre build event is being added the right way like this:
xcopy $(SolutionDir)Some\Path $(ProjectDir)Some\Other\Path
When I uninstall and install my NuGet package again, the existing pre build events are being requested from the target project. The problem is that when an environment variable like $(ProjectDir) or $(SolutionDir) is being used in the pre build event, my powershell script gets the value that is associated with the variable. Like so:
c:\Path\To\Solution\Dir
or:
C:\Path\To\Project\Dir
But I want it to give me the string with the env variables in it. How can I get the literal value from the pre build events in powershell?
Tim
UPDATE::
I have done a little more research and concluded that the environment variables in the build events won't be replaced UNLESS it is a Windows Installer project.
