Dependencies and references - What exactly should I reference?

Question

I am wondering what to include when building my project. I have a library I need to reference for my project to build but that library has 10 dependencies itself. Should I r

Answer 1

It's just opinion. Either way will work.

Personally I hate post-build BAT files, so I would include the dependencies to get them copied to the output directory.

Another option is to put a link to them in your project - like in a resources directory. Have this set to BuildAction=None, and CopyToOutputDirectory=CopyIfNewer