MSBuild doesn't copy references (DLL files) if using project dependencies in solution

Question

I have four projects in my Visual Studio solution (everyone targeting .NET 3.5) - for my problem only these two are important:

1. MyBaseProject &

Answer 1

Referencing assemblies that are not used during build is not the correct practice. You should augment your build file so it will copy the additional files. Either by using a post build event or by updating the property group.

Some examples can be found in other post

• MSBuild to copy dynamically generated files as part of project dependency
• VS2010 How to include files in project, to copy them to build output directory automatically during build or publish