use post build events with Fody.Costura installed

Question

Once I added Fody.Costura to my project, my post build event that was copying the resulting assembly into a different location started failing with access denied message. That makes sense since Costura uses MSBuild to embed the assemblies. Is there a way to force my post builds to execute after Costura is finished? Example of a post build command:

copy /Y "$(TargetPath)" "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\2019\HOK-Addin.bundle\Contents"

Answer 1

Basically the solution to my own question is the following.

  <Target Name="CopyFiles" AfterTargets="AfterBuild;NonWinFodyTarget">
    <Message Text="Signing file..." Importance="high" />
    <Exec Command="&quot;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.17134.0\x64\signtool.exe&quot; sign /c &quot;Code Signing - DTM&quot; /v &quot;$(TargetPath)&quot;" />
    <Message Text="Copy files..." Importance="high" />
    <Message Text="$(TargetPath) &gt; $(ALLUSERSPROFILE)\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\$(Configuration)\HOK-Addin.bundle\Contents" Importance="high" />
    <Message Text="$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).addin &gt; $(ALLUSERSPROFILE)\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\$(Configuration)" Importance="high" />
    <Copy SourceFiles="$(TargetPath)" DestinationFolder="$(ALLUSERSPROFILE)\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\$(Configuration)\HOK-Addin.bundle\Contents" ContinueOnError="true" />
    <Copy SourceFiles="$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).addin" DestinationFolder="$(ALLUSERSPROFILE)\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\$(Configuration)" ContinueOnError="true" />
  </Target>

What I did, was to replace the standatd Post Build Command that runs Command Line routines, with a MSBuild Target and a Task.Giving it flags to run after Build is finished and Fody is done merging assemblies resolves my issue.

What also helps is the fact that Tasks have flags like ContinueOnError="true" that allow the task to keep trying until the file is available (if that was the issue) as opposed to command line utilities that would just fail.

Cheers!