{"id":379,"date":"2014-12-02T09:23:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/?p=379"},"modified":"2014-12-02T09:57:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T08:57:49","slug":"putting-assemblies-dependencies-in-a-subfolder-in-a-c-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Putting assemblies \/ dependencies in a subfolder in a c#-project"},"content":{"rendered":"

An application folder can look quite crowded if you have some assemblies or 3rd party references in use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like in this image:<\/td>\n\"proj_folder_before\"<\/td>\nWouldn’t it be much nicer to have it look like:\"proj_folder_after\"<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

When it comes to having dll-files somewhere else than in the “app-folder, things can get quite cumbersome.<\/p>\n

Here’s how to achieve this:<\/p>\n

Moving files into subfolder<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are multiple ways to achieve this.<\/p>\n

One way is to add a solution folder with the desired name of the subfolder and add the assemblies \/ dependencies as files (best way is to add them as links) there with build action=none<\/code> and copylocal=true<\/code>. If you add assemblies there used as references as well, set the copylocal<\/code> for the references to false<\/code>.<\/p>\n

Another way is to leave the dll’s where they are (just adding dependent dlls as files\/links into the project’s root directory) and create a post-build event or (my preferred way) add an AfterBuild<\/code> task to the project to move all *.dll files into the subfolder.<\/p>\n

For the post-build event just edit the project’s properties and add the commands into the post-build in the Build Events.<\/p>\n

For the preferred way, just edit the csproj file (unload the project, then right-click and edit, open in any text-editor or use the visual studio addon EditProj<\/a>) and add the following code at the bottom:<\/p>\n

<Target Name=\"AfterBuild\">\r\n\t<ItemGroup>\r\n\t\t<FilesToMove Include=\"$(OutDir)*.dll\" \/>\r\n\t<\/ItemGroup>\r\n\t<Move SourceFiles=\"@(FilesToMove)\" DestinationFolder=\"$(OutDir)Libs\" \/>\r\n<\/Target><\/pre>\n
This example code uses the folder “Libs” for the dlls. Feel free to adjust it to your needs.<\/p>\n
Telling the application\u00a0to search other directories for libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n
This is actually quite simple. The current way of doing this is to edit the app.config and adding the following code into the configuration:<\/p>\n
<runtime>\r\n\t<assemblyBinding xmlns=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1\">\r\n\t\t<probing privatePath=\"Libs\" \/>\r\n\t<\/assemblyBinding>\r\n<\/runtime><\/pre>\n
That’s it. With those two things you can have a “clean” application folder where all the assemblies or 3rd-party dependencies (like sqlite or sqlce dlls) are nicely stored in a subfolder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An application folder can look quite crowded if you have some assemblies or 3rd party references in use. Like in this image: Wouldn’t it be much nicer to have it look like: When it comes to having dll-files somewhere else than in the “app-folder, things can get quite cumbersome. Here’s how to achieve this: Moving … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-roemer","4":"post-379","6":"format-standard","7":"category-csharp","8":"category-programming"},"acf":[],"views":3651,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dev.flauschig.ch\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}