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What use is the Aliases property of assembly references in Visual Studio 8

This is for “extern aliases”. Suppose you want to use two different types, both of which are called Foo.Bar (i.e. Bar in a namespace of Foo). The two types will be in different assemblies (by definition) – you use the property in VS to associate an alias with each reference, then you can do: extern … Read more

How do I get .NET Core projects to copy NuGet references to the build output?

You can add this to a <PropertyGroup> inside your csproj file to enforce copying NuGet assemblies to the build output: <CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies>true</CopyLocalLockFileAssemblies> However, note that the build output (bin/Release/netcoreapp*/*) is not supposed to be portable and distributable, the output of dotnet publish is. But in your case, copying the assemblies to the build output is probably … Read more