How to force Visual Studio to reference local Enterprise Library DLL file instead of installed dir file

Question

I\'ve got a asp.net project that references Enterprise Library DLL\'s. I can build and deploy my project but the deployment build fails because it can\'t find the DLL\'s. I pe

Answer 1

Okay, I had to dig into the .proj files. Under are tags. You can add within the Reference tags to direct the project to a specific DLL instance.

<ItemGroup>
  <Reference Include="Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common, Version=5.0.414.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, processorArchitecture=MSIL" >
    <HintPath>..\lib\Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.dll</HintPath>
  </Reference>
  ...

Answer 2

Highlight the reference in the Solution and change the "Copy Local" in the properties window to True, see if that helps.