Adding files to Visual Studio installer project in a relative manner

Question

I'm trying to build a new installer project using Visual Studio 2010. The problem is that the installation files should be taken relatively to project's location, so I guess I need to specify a relative path, eg: "..\\..\\..\\some_folder\\veryImportant.dll"

The problem is that the installer project is providing me only with a .vdproj file which doesn't contain location/paths to any of the manually added files (when I do right click on the project and add new files).

Just to make sure my question is clear enough:

Let say my project sits under D:\\develop\\backend\\MainProject\\Project\\Installer , I would like to import some DLLs from D:\\develop\\backend\\MainProject\\SDKDLLs adding them manually by specifying their absolute location isn't good for me

(d:\\develop\\backend\\MainProject\\SDKDLLs\\core.dll)

Thanks for your help.

Edit: After reviewing the project file a bit deeper, I realized the paths are already relative:

       "{1FB2D0AE-D3B9-43D4-B9DD-F88EC61E35DE}:_1E8A546C985F494593B28567414EE00D"
        {
        "SourcePath" = "8:..\\..\\a\\b\\c\\d\\e\\f.dll"
        "TargetName" = "8:f.dll"
        "Tag" = "8:"
        "Folder" = "8:_34476923AC9546E4B47A8B966C915E0B"
        "Condition" = "8:"
        "Transitive" = "11:FALSE"
        "Vital" = "11:TRUE"
        "ReadOnly" = "11:FALSE"
        "Hidden" = "11:FALSE"
        "System" = "11:FALSE"
        "Permanent" = "11:FALSE"
        "SharedLegacy" = "11:FALSE"
        "PackageAs" = "3:1"
        "Register" = "3:1"
        "Exclude" = "11:FALSE"
        "IsDependency" = "11:FALSE"
        "IsolateTo" = "8:"
        }

It seems like the wizard already does it automatically. Is there a way to specify the relative-location manually and not by editing the .vdproj file?

Answer 1

The project is already initialized with relative paths. so infact, no changes should be done by me.