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How to create a Visual Studio project file to copy indirect links?

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As the screenshot shows, ClassLibrary1 relies on ClassLibrary2 and ClassLibrary2 relies on ClassLibrary3. And Copy Local is set to True. But when I compile ClassLibrary1, ClassLibrary3 will not be copied to the bin folder.

So, how can I customize the Visual Studio project file to copy indirect links?

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I do not think that's possible.

If you want indirect links to be copied locally, you will need to add a direct link to them for each project that you want them to be in.

If you try to create a project using MSBuild, you will probably be informed that there is no indirect dependency; Visual Studio usually ignores missing indirect dependencies if you are not directly using any of them.

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This question has already been asked here .

@competent_tech is correct as this is not possible in Visual Studio. However, Alex Yakunin solved his problem with the custom goal of MSBuild .

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