Xcopy "exited with code 9009"

Question

I am getting the following error, which I don't understand:

Error   1   The command "xcopy "D:\Users\johndoe\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\MyProject\MyProject.Modules.Ribbon\bin\Debug\MyProject.Modules.Ribbon.dll" 
  "D:\Users\johndoe\Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\MyProject\MyProject\bin\Debug\Modules\" /Y" exited with code 9009.    MyProject.Modules.Ribbon

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Answer 1

Your xcopy command failed for some reason.

I would guess that either the DLL file doesn't exist (eg, the build failed) or the target path doesn't exist.

Run the same command line in a command prompt and see what error it prints.

Answer 2

Found my answer: The command had a line break between the source and destination strings. So, Visual Sudio was treating it as two commands. Eliminating the line break solved the problem.