Question

I wonder if it’s possible to make something like this…

I have a project in VS2012 that uses two referenced VS projects (DLLs are being created during compilation) and some other DLLs (external libraries etc.). Now I want to clean up my compilation and place DLLs in two folders: e.g. Internals and Externals.

How to make it possible? The problem is that my compiled .exe app file wants the DLLs to be placed in the main folder (near to it) – so if it needs to load the library from DLL it crashes…

I tried to find something in the web, but ppl only ask about copying DLLs from the reference folders into the output folder. But that’s not what I want to do:/

Answer 1

Ok, I have found a solution. I need to add a new item app.config and specify privatePaths:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
    <runtime>
        <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
            <probing privatePath="InternalsFolder;ExternalsFolder" />
        </assemblyBinding>
    </runtime>
</configuration>