My standalone Windows Forms application requires a few DLLs. At run time it appears that the DLLs must be in ths same folder as the exe file. How can I make the program look for DLLs in some other folder, eg .\DLLs or .\bin

Thanks.

MSDN: How the Runtime Locates Assemblies

If you are talking about .NET assemblies, you can manually load assemblies into your application domain using the AppDomain.Loadmethod. Otherwise, if the assemblies are shared, I recommend to put them into the GAC.

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If you are talking about .NET assemblies, you can manually load assemblies into your application domain using the AppDomain.Loadmethod. Otherwise, if the assemblies are shared, I recommend to put them into the GAC.

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Thanks. But I can't seem to find an overload that allows the path to be specified.

MSDN: How the Runtime Locates Assemblies

Thank you very much.

It seems what I need is simply setting CurrentDomain.RelativeSearchPath, but unfortunately there's only a Get accessor for this property.

The writeable property is in AppDomainSetup.PrivateBinPath, but creating a new AppDomainSetup object will only apply to newly created domains.

It looks like I have to wade into a new area creating new AppDomains.

Just to let all know that I finally added the following to the app.exe.config file where codeBase specifies the location:

<

runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="yyyyyy" publicKeyToken="fffffffffffff" culture="neutral" />
<codeBase version="0.0.0.0" href="subfolder/yyyyyy.dll"/>
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>