Visual Studio 2010 Compiling with the Debug or Release version of third party library depending on if my project is being compiled Build or Release?

Question

I\'ve downloaded a number of 3rd party libraries (dlls) now for Visual Studio 2010/C# and I\'ve noticed that in their distributions \\bin directory they usually have two ver

Answer 1

Yes, but probably not natively inside VS2010. You can edit the .csproj file and use Condition attributes to create the references to Release or Debug.

  ..\lib\Debug\MyLib.dll

or

  ..\lib\Release\MyLib.dll