VS2008.NET: Getting a referenced project's dependencies to copy to main project's bin folder

Question

Let\'s assume I have a C# Winforms project, MainGUI.

It references another project in the same solution, ControlsLib.

ControlsLib references a third party co

Answer 1

You would need to add a link to the necessary files from the UI project (MainGUI) and set them to copy to the output folder from there. The inbuilt packaging tools do (IIRC) cascade these correctly, but for external tools I expect you'll need to do it manually.

On my build server, I use a script that investigates references, and adds in all the descendent references just before it is built (by editing the csproj files as xml)... the code is not great, but it does the job.