visual studio 2010 - Build another project by prebuild event without adding reference

Question

I am copying .exe file form a separate to my main project's folder on prebuild event but I need to build that project before build my main project so i want to build that project on prebuild event of my main project.

Answer 1

Not that this is the best solution, but it will definitely work for what you want to do: Put the below into your pre-build event

"$(VS100COMNTOOLS)..IDEdevenv" "csproj location OR sln location" /Rebuild "configuration required if you have more than configuration ex: Debug|x64"