Visual Studio 2010 Publish Web feature not including all DLLs

Question

I have an ASP.NET MVC 2 application.

• Web project contains a reference to SomeProject
• SomeProject contains references to ExternalAssembly1 and ExternalAs

Answer 1

I got the same problem and this is a VS2010 bug if there's a reference link like: Web Project --> custom project --> assembly1 -->(indirectly) assembly2.

For now I find if I reference the Assembly1 in the web project, then assembly2 is included in the bin folder. So I had to add an additional reference link like: Web project --> assembly1 -->(indirectly) assembly2. Then VS can recognize assembly2 and include its dll file in publish action.