specify dll locations in VS

I have about 15 projects in a solution, and all of them have some broken third-party dll references. How do I co开发者_开发百科nfigure VS to look for dlls in one specific directory? I am trying to compile and link my project, but it doesn't work because projects have broken references to existing third-party dlls. My solution consists of C# class library projects and an ASP.NET web site.

If they are project references (and they probably should be), you should not need to (unles you have moved the projects)

Otherwise, create a third-party Lib folder (under source control) at the solution root folder, place your third-party DLLs in it and reference from there.

If you need to fix up references, download and install VSCommands 2010 which has a very useful copy and paste references feature (among others). [Fix up for one project, and then simply copy and paste to other projects. Failing that, you would need to manually edit the .proj files, using Powershell for instance.]

You go from one project to the other and update the references to point to the new location.

If this is a third party DLL, you can record a macro the first time you do this and replay it for each project.