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Add a parameter to the MSBuild Copy task for recursive copying

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#334 opened on Nov 5, 2015

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Description

Currently one has to use this idiom (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/msbuild/archive/2005/11/07/490068.aspx) to recursively copy. Without resorting to invoking robocopy or other platform specific commands.

The Copy task should have a RecursiveCopy parameter to enable this behaviour.

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Look at the existing Copy task implementation in the MSBuild codebase, understand how its parameters are defined and used, then add a new boolean parameter 'RecursiveCopy' and implement the recursive copy logic.
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