.Net Assembly Probing
I have a situation where I need an application to look for assemblies in a subdirectory of the path where the executable resides. For instance, if I have an executable here: C:\MyApp\MyApp.exe The application will normally look for assemblies it depends on here: C:\MyApp\ However, what if you would like to put the assemblies here instead: C:\MyApp\MyAssemblies\ What you can do is add a few lines to your app.config for the application that looks like this. <configuration> <runtime> <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"> <probing privatePath="bin1;bin2;bin3"/> </assemblyBinding> </runtime> </configuration> Where the privatePath attribute is a semi-colon delimited list of subdirectories to look in. In this particular case, we would add this: <configuration> <runtime> <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"> <probing privatePath="MyAssemblies"/> &l