How to share referenced assemblies with other developers using TFS2010

Question

I am working on a VS2010 project with 4 other developers and we are having reference issues when we are connecting someone to the project for the first time or when somone adds a new dll file. How can we get the reference files to come from the bin folder on each developers machine when someone clicks on "Get latest Version" and "Check In"?

Answer 1

use Nuget (preferable) or create a 'Lib' folder in the solution (and add it to source control) for referenced DLLs (third party or otherwise).

NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update third-party libraries and tools in Visual Studio.

• Using Nuget Packages
• Managing NuGet Packages

There is an official Entity Framework Nuget package (as well as many others).