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Asked: 2026-05-13T09:51:37+00:00

I wish to include the dll output by a project built from an external

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I wish to include the dll output by a project built from an external SVN repository within my own project. What is the best approach to achieve this aim.

As the external project svn:ignores the bin\release folder I don’t think I can use an svn:external.

Building the latest version and copying across the dlls seems prone to error.

In this instance I wish to include the HtmlAgilityPack from codeplex, so any example referencing this project would be good (https://htmlagilitypack.svn.codeplex.com/svn).

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is exactly what svn:externals is for. Since the source code is provided in the other repository, you will have to add a new project in your solution that builds that source, rather than including the DLLs.

    Also, don’t forget the best practice of linking to a specific revision of the external repo (as opposed to HEAD) so that you have control over if and when to update your copy of their code.

    EDIT

    Given your target repository’s structure of

    /Branches
    1.3.0
    1.4.0
/Release
    1_4_0_beta1
    1_4_0_beta2
/Trunk

    I would link to something in the Release folder, e.g.

    /Release/1_4_0_beta2/HtmlAgilityPack

    You can also specify a revision number as a safeguard against something changing unexpectedly, but this is a tag and therefore they are unlikely to update it — they’ll just make a new tag.

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