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I have written an MSBuild task that makes use of third-party assemblies.
When I use the task in my project, MSBuild complains that it can’t load the third-party assemblies (not surprisingly).
Where should I place the third-party assemblies so that they are available to MSBuild. I tried adding project references to them without success.
I’m not sure if I expressed my problem very well, but now I’ve found the solution.
In my .proj file, I reference my custom task with the following syntax…
My CreateDatabase task relies on various 3rd-party assemblies. However, some of these are only referenced via reflection, so weren’t included by default in the folder “..\lib\MyCompany.MSBuild”.
I had been trying to get the task to work by placing the required assemblies in the same directory as the .proj file invoking the task.
However, what I should have been doing was putting the assemblies in the referenced task directory “..\lib\MyCompany.MSBuild\”.
Simple!