Copy dlls that are not referenced in the project into published folder in Visual Studio 2012

Question

I m generating resource assemblies from text files by executing a bat file in the pre-build event and copying them into bin folder. These resource assemblies are therefore not referenced in the project.

At present I need to manually copy these dlls into published folder. Is there a clean way that ensures that everytime I publish, the required dlls are copied into published folder.

Note: I do not want to hard code physical path for deployment folder in the bat file/ or prebuild events.

Answer 1

Please select the DLL and open Property and Marked "Copy Local" as True. Please refer below image. it may help you.