Copying referenced files to a subfolder within Output folder

MTariqAziz

Currently referencing any file (in the References tab) would copy it over to the output folder, as a flat structure.

e.g. OutputDir/referenced_file.json

Is there any possibility to copy the referenced file to a subfolder within the outdir ?

e.g. OutputDir/assets/referenced_file.json

Or may be reference a whole folder ?

JoeAlbahari

If you reference a NuGet package with content files, LINQPad will recursively copy the following folders automatically:

contentFiles\any
contentFiles\cs

Otherwise, you could use LINQPad's OnInit hook method and write a query like this:

void Main()
{
    // Test it:
    Util.Cmd (@"dir");
    Util.Cmd (@"dir foo");
}

void OnInit()    // Executes when the query process first loads
{
    if (!Directory.Exists ("foo"))
    {
        Directory.CreateDirectory ("foo");
        File.WriteAllText (@"foo\\test.txt", "test");
    }
}

To re-use this from another query, save it to a query such as "foo.linq", then #load it as follows:

#load "foo"

void Main()
{
    // Test it:
    Util.Cmd (@"dir");
    Util.Cmd (@"dir foo");
}