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title: "Adding pre and post build events for VB.Net projects"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/3/adding-pre-and-post-build-events-for-vbnet-projects.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/3/adding-pre-and-post-build-events-for-vbnet-projects.html"
published: "2004-09-03T18:16:00"
updated: "2004-09-03T18:16:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Avner told me the other day that he found a way to add pre and post build events supports to VB.Net projects (which is a shame that they don't have them as default like C#). His way was to use the Macro capability of…"
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# Adding pre and post build events for VB.Net projects

By Roy Osherove September 3, 2004 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published September 3, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

[Avner](http://weblogs.asp.net/avnerk/) told me the other day that he [found a way  to add pre and post build events supports to VB.Net projects](http://weblogs.asp.net/avnerk/archive/2004/09/03/225251.aspx) (which is a shame that they don't have them as default like C#). His way was to use the Macro capability of Vs.Net and hook to build events. He wanted to make an add-in that does that. Turns out there is a working sample of exactly such a thing, and much more, from Microsoft. Yep - get all that and more at the [Visual Studio .NET 2003 Automation Samples](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3FF9C915-30E5-430E-95B3-621DCCD25150&displaylang=en) page. Thanks for finding this link Avner!

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