Silverlight Toolkit, Where do you put the binaries

So you download the toolkit off Codeplex. Now what? Where do you prefer to place the binaries?

I'm particularly interested in what you do with the design binaries, where in your systems folders do you place these? Do you add them to the GAC?

Solution

This question definitely targets the original release(s) of the Silverlight Toolkit. The March 2009, July 2009, and all future releases have this improved experience, so you won't need to copy the binaries into your project directories.

Starting earlier this year, we've updated the Silverlight Toolkit to have an MSI-based installer for Windows that does a number of tasks, including

Create a set of folders under the Silverlight SDK, to contain the toolkit
Create a Start Menu group with links to documentation, online forums, a getting started guide, and the source code
Register the Silverlight Toolkit's controls with Visual Studio's toolbox and Expression Blend's control library
Register the binaries as extensions, so that you can include a simple reference inside your projects
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<Reference Include="System.Windows.Controls.Input.Toolkit" />
```