I'm building a loosely-coupled app, where the main exe project only contains references to an assembly with interfaces. The concrete implementations of those interfaces are in assemblies that are referenced indirectly - via IoC. However, those assemblies' build output doesn't get copied to the bin\Debug folder of the exe, which means my IoC can't find them.
How do I make sure those assemblies are copied, if there is no actual project/assembly reference?
You can create a post-build event to copy the desired files to the output directory after the project is built.
Hi Neil, did you try to right click your exe project -> Project Dependencies. Then tick all the projects that you need to be copied over your bin\Debug folder ?
Alternatively what Konamiman said would work as well.
You can make sure they are built before the main exe project by checking the relevant projects in Build Dependencies dialog (found in the Project context menu).
However I think you need to use xcopy in a post-build step to actually copy the assemblies.
Assuming your using Visual Studio, prehaps you can copy the items in a Post Build event.
Project >> Properties >> Build Events.