Reference DLL file not copying to bin with deployment project, causing error

Question

We have several external DLL files being referenced in our Web Application Project. We have a deployment project for installing on the hosting servers. When we were using .N

Answer 1

Something weird had happened to my deployment project. When I saw it had no detected dependencies, I removed the primary output and re-added it.

The dependencies are now showing up and being placed in the bin folder when installed.

Answer 2

We can use the <Private>False</Private> to not to copy the referenced DLL files to the bin directory. This is useful when we are building applications in a separate TFS build server where we need to build the application and not to copy the DLL files to the bin directory.