How to compile and deploy an assembly to a custom path using visual studio?
I searched for this for a long time and I could find something. I have 2 projects. One is called ConsoleApp and the other is called ConsoleLib. ConsoleApp has a link to ConsoleLib. How can I tell visual studio to copy the assembly to the custom path instead of the app path? I want to say that when I create a solution I want to get this folder structure
AppPath \ ConsoleApp.exe
AppPath \ Lib \
AppPath \ Lib \ ConsoleLib.dll
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In the ConsoleApp project, refer to the ConsolLib project, which will receive the ConsolLib.dll in ConsolApp \ Bin.
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Now, in the ConsoleApp goto project of PostBuild command, you can separate the operations that you can do after build, and there you can copy it to ConsoleApp \ Lib.
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You need to use the postbuild command in your application project to create the lib directory and copy the library file into it.
If you choose to do this (which I would not recommend if you have a lot of DLLs and feel overwhelmed to organize them), you also need to add a tracking element to your app.config file that will tell you where to look for the libraries. See here .
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Use the postbuild command (I use subdir "release" in the output)
mkdir "$(TargetDir)release\"
mkdir "$(TargetDir)release\bin\"
copy "$(TargetDir)*.*" "$(TargetDir)release\"
copy "$(TargetDir)*.dll" "$(TargetDir)release\bin\"
copy "$(TargetDir)*.pdb" "$(TargetDir)release\bin\"
del "$(TargetDir)release\*.pdb"
del "$(TargetDir)release\*.dll"
del "$(TargetDir)release\*vshost*.*"
In app.config then:
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<probing privatePath="bin"/>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
Hope it helps
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