App.config is inaccessible from unit test project

By default, in Visual Studio Team Test, a project’s App.config is not accessible from the unit test project. If you need access to it from your unit test, you can include a post-build event to rename it and add it to your unit test output directory. Follow these steps:

1.       Right click on the unit test project

2.       Select “Properties”

3.       Select the “Build Events” tab

4.       In the “Post-build event command line” text box, enter:

copy "<project path>App.config" "$(ProjectDir)$(OutDir)$(TargetFileName).config"

Where <project path> is the path to the location of the App.config. This can be a relative path such as:

copy "$(ProjectDir)../MyProject/App.config" "$(ProjectDir)$(OutDir)$(TargetFileName).config"

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