Why am I missing assemblies from the bin directory when compiling with MsBuild?

Question

I have a solution which contains many class libraries and an ASP .NET website which references those assemblies.

When I build the solution from within the IDE, all a

Answer 1

Which msbuild are you referencing? Is it the right one?

I generally call like this (from a batch file):

%WINDIR%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v3.5\msbuild.exe deploy.proj /v:n

In this example, deploy.proj is just a regular msbuild file that does some other stuff before and after calling msbuild on the .sln file.