Silverlight Project - Setting Reference to Copy Local false not working.

Question

Why is it that when my Silverlight project is built, the output directory contains a bunch of culture specific directories:

• ar\System.Windows.Controls.resources.dll
• bg\System.Windows.Controls.resources.dll
• ca\System.Windows.Controls.resources.dll
• etc etc etc

Also the root of the build output contains:

• System.Xml.Linq.dll
• System.windows.Controls.dll

I have gone through the projects in my solution and made sure that "Copy Local" is set to false for all the referances of the mentioned dll files. Those 2 files were set to true, but I did switch them to false. Despite my effort to google an answer, I remain stuck.

Answer 1

You have dependent libraries or DLLs or references that expect these SDK assemblies.

Those directories contain the language-specific resource files and will be there if the System.Windows.Controls assembly is included in any way in any part of your project or its dependencies.

Answer 2

Double check that ALL REFERENCED ASSEMBLIES are set to copy local false.