When I started to develop with .NET under VS2008 recently, I was very happy to see that all of the dependencies automagically got copied to my application’s bin/debug folder upon compilation. This is fantastic. I never even bothered to look into how / why this is done.
Yesterday, I decided to make another plugin very similar to an existing one, so I literally copied the folder and all of project files, then renamed the folder and manually edited the project files and file references. I also changed the assembly’s GUID.
Everything builds fine, but this particular assembly is never copied into my application’s bin/debug folder. It is marked as a dependency of my app as well.
What did I miss here?
you should go to reference properties pages and check if the “Copy Local” property of the reference is set to true
regards