I'm trying to clean up my Release folder so dependency files have some type of organization to them. My goal in this case is to contain all the dependencies I need for my compression module into a single folder. For this first part of my new class library I'm just trying to support 7zip files. I do this using the SevenZipSharp.Interop NuGet which depends on the SevenZipSharp NuGet.
By default, the above NuGets build results in my Release/Debug folders and look like the following...
Release
|- x64
| `- 7z.dll
|- x86
| `- 7z.dll
|- SevenZipSharp.dll
`- compressionmodule.dll
As I add more support to my class library I want to make sure everything has it's own folder etc. So, I want to organize it in the following way...
Release
|- compressionmodule
| `- 7zip
| |- x64
| | `- 7z.dll
| |- x86
| | `- 7z.dll
| `- SevenZipSharp.dll
`- compressionmodule.dll
I do this by running a few POST BUILD commands and once the project builds I get the structure I want above (the latter). However, when debugging, after I compile and the POST BUILD commands occur, the application tries to run and I get a System.IO.FileNotFoundException error telling me it can't find SevenZipSharp.dll. I knew this would happen in the back of my mind but was hoping there was a way to let the application know the new location of the dependencies.
Is it possible to relocate the files and then let my application know they are in a different place somehow?