How to specify output folder for the referenced nuget packages?

Question

I have a project with some nuget packages referenced.

In output folders (bin\\Debug or bin\\Release), all referenced libraries lie next to the

Answer 1

Grace to the zivkan's investigation I found the answer. Traditional project has target CopyFilesToOutputDirectory which depends on _CopyFilesMarkedCopyLocal target. In this last one we have task Copy:

And here I found metadata DestinationSubDirectory which is exactly what I need to change.

So finally

First, we need to change csproj file and add these lines:

  
    
      lib\
    
  

Second, we need to change app.config file to let the assembly know the path to the libraries:

That's all. All referenced libraries will be copied into subfolder lib