Where do you put your 3rd party libraries?

Question

I\'ve got a bunch of .dll assemblies, such as HtmlAgilityPack and MoreLinq. Where am I supposed to put these files? I usually toss them so

Answer 1

At my company we place all our shared DLL assemblies onto a network drive in a folder called Assemblies. From there, we use SyncToy to mirror changes between that folder and a folder on our local development machines (in my case C:\Assemblies with subfolders for different versions or useful third party assemblies). Using the "Reference Paths" feature of Visual Studio projects makes it very easy to select different assembly versions based only on locations.

For projects at home, I would definitely go with the idea mentioned by Jeff M of placing them in the Visual Studio folder under My Documents.