How to implement pre/post build event in VS code?

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I have a command like below
apidoc -i "filepath" -o "filepath"/doc/
but i want to excecute automatically while building the application.

What I have tried:

{
"label": "echotest",
"command": "apidoc -i "filepath" -o "filepath"/doc/",
"args": ["test"],
"type": "shell"
}

but it's not working.

Posted 11-Feb-19 1:29am

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Updated 24-Dec-19 22:15pm

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RmcbainTheThird · Answer 1 · 2019-02-11T01:54:00

Solution 1

1.Right click on the project in the solution explorer and choose properties
2. Click on the Build events in the left pane
3. in the pre-build area type in the commands you want to run

Posted 11-Feb-19 1:54am

RmcbainTheThird

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Member 11592964 11-Feb-19 23:08pm

how to do that in visual studio code

RmcbainTheThird 12-Feb-19 7:44am

Don't know myself but Google told me about this
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks#_custom-tasks

dundich · Answer 2 · 2019-12-24T22:15:00

How to run multiple tasks in VS Code on build? - Stack Overflow

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
       {
            "label": "build",
            "command": "dotnet",
            "type": "process",
            "args": [
                "build",
                "${workspaceFolder}/Regevent.API.csproj",
                "/property:GenerateFullPaths=true",
                "/consoleloggerparameters:NoSummary"
            ],
            "problemMatcher": "$msCompile",
            "dependsOn": [
                "pre-build"
            ]
        },
        {
            "label": "pre-build",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "git describe --long > '${workspaceFolder}/version.txt'"
        }
    ]
}