How to use third part library in Visual Studio

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Hello,

I want to include a third party library in my project.
Some posts tell me to copy the dll directly in my bin folder.
Can I instead put it in a generic folder so that all the third party libraries are in one place and can be referenced in any project?

Posted 7-Mar-13 23:56pm

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johannesnestler · Answer 1 · 2013-03-08T00:04:00

You can use a VisualStudio Solution folder - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/haytww03(v=vs.80).aspx
This is good if you have more projects in one solution referencing your 3rd party lib.

If you want your lib to be used in different solutions it could be installed in the GAC and refenced from there (I don't like this, because I think every project should be independent from a special developer machine) - So I'd copy it to a special "include" folder for every solution.