VS2010 Building Solution - Add Files to BIN folder

We have a solution comprising of a windows application and various library files. Not all of the library files are referenced by the main windows application however we would like to have all the library fil开发者_StackOverflow中文版es included in the output build folder "bin".

Obviously one solution is to simply reference every single library from the Windows application however we would like to avoid any unnecessary referencing.

How can we include additional files into our build folder?

This is a C# project.

You can always use the pre-build or post-build events in the project settings to copy the additional files.

You can do this simply by doing a bunch of copy source target, or you could even be fancy and write an nmake file. You do have to maintain the list of source files however...

Edit:

One other thought. Your assumption is that this is "unnecessary referencing". However, if your application depends on these assemblies to run, whether or not they are compile time references, then don't these dependencies become "necessary" references? In that case, isn't adding them as references and letting Studio's build system work for you the best (and simplest) approach?

The solution was to change the build location for all "libraries" within the solution to the main output "bin" location. The main Windows application only references the libraries that it depends upon however all the libraries are built to the one "common" location.

Thanks to Nader Shirazie for help with this question.