Visual Studio - SharePoint 2010 - Include Assembly > Quick Question

Question

I have a quick question....building a VS 2010 SharePoint project and I am referencing a custom assembly. I can reference this assembly in my code and it works fine to write code and all. When I deploy the project to SharePoint my Feature Activation code will not run because the custom assembly does not get deployed with the project.

I have set Copy Local to TRUE on the referenced assembly. Am I missing something?

Thanks

Answer 1

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but you can use ilmerge.exe to bundle satellite managed assemblies into your executable, making it portable and more easily deployed. I use it all the time, it works great.

You can set up a build event in VS2010 to do this automatically whenever you build, too, though it can be a bit slow (I have it set as a Release-only build event for this reason).

Answer 2

When you Create SharePoint Project in Visual Studio 2010, you will see a Item called Package in it.Click open it and bottom left corner click on Advanced, you will see an option to add additional assemblies , add as many you want > all assemblies you select here will get deployed as a Part of SHarePoint Package you create.