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How to copy referenced assembly's dependecies to ASP.NET output bin folder?

In Visual Studio 2010, I have project A (asp.net application). Project A references project B (class library). Project B references assembly C (direct reference to a DLL).

When building project A, only project A and project B binaries are present in the /bin directory of project A, but not the assembly C. Why is that? If project B depends on assembly C, why is assembly C not copied together to the output folder?

"Copy local" is already set to "true" for assembly C.

Solution

  • I managed to workaround the issue by adding this variable to a class in project B:

    private Type t = typeof(SomeClassInAssemblyC);

    Now when I build project A, both project B binaries and assembly C DLL are copied to the /bin directory of project A.