Probing element in app.config + Post build event to copy multiple files
Probing is quite good to arrange assemblies in case if you have lots of private libraries referred to your executables and which are there under a probing path mentioned under the probing element in app.config file When I started developing an executable , which demands to split its logic among several dlls and which are part of same solution and are deployed using simple xcopy method I found it quite convenent to use probing path combined with postbuild script under project properties section of the main executable file . Here in my example project, I have a dll project and an executable , which has been refered by the executable project in the same solution The following post-script build script save me from copying the required files into Binaries\Libs folder strcuture under the current selected build method(Release/Debug) . This is quite convenient in case to perform an xcopy of your binaries to the deployment folder. All the unwanted .vshost , pdb,manifest etc files are