c# - Visual Studio 2010 Compiling with the Debug or Release version of third party library depending on if my project is being compiled Build or Release?

Question

I've downloaded a number of 3rd party libraries (dlls) now for Visual Studio 2010/C# and I've noticed that in their distributions in directory they usually have two versions Debug and Release.

Is there a way to add these libraries as references to the project, but use the Release build (when I'm building a release), and use the Debug build (when I'm debugging)?

Answer 1

<Reference Include="MyLib">
   <HintPath>..lib$(Configuration)MyLib.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>