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

You could make use of the Post-Build steps in project properties to copy the output for the project to a particular location.

This copies to an Assemblies directory in the same directory as the Sln file. I have this in the post-build step of all my projects.

md "$(SolutionDir)Assemblies"
del "$(SolutionDir)Assemblies\$(TargetFileName)"
copy "$(TargetPath)" "$(SolutionDir)Assemblies" /y