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Visual Studio 2008 - Add Reference

When adding a DLL as a reference to an ASP.Net project, VS2008 adds several files to the bin directory. If the DLL is called foo.dll, VS2008 adds foo.dll.refresh, foo.pdb and foo.xml. I know what foo.dll is :-), why does VS2008 add the other three files? What do those three files do? Can I delete them? Do they need to be added in so...

how do you refresh references in ASP.NET applications without visual studio?

I have an ASP.NET application which relies on an external assembly which is not in the GAC. The app has a .refresh file which copies the assembly into the bin directory when the app is compiled. When I install the app on a production server (by copying the app files into a virtual directory), the bin directory is not updated automatical...