VSeWSS 1.3 - all DLLs have to be accessible

This tool or extension has some unexpected behaviour :


When you create a deploy package all the DLLs that your project references have to be accessible .... this is normal so far.

But, the problem is that all the DLLs referenced by your directly referenced DLLs also have to be accessible.

The immediate (and obvious) way to solve this problem is to copy these DLLs to the GAC (not so great in large scale production deployment scenarios). However we have found that you can also fix the problem by copying the DLLs to the server side VSeWSS "bin" folder (i.e. the VSeWSS extension has a small web application that generates the wsp for you) which typically resides in “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SharePoint Developer Tools 9.0\svc\bin”.

Hopefully the tricks above will work for you, but let us know if you have any better work-around or better practice for solving this particular problem ;-)