I have created a c#-project in Visual Studio 2022 which is using the nuget-package "Microsoft.Data.SqlClient". This package brings along about 60(!) dll, so that my \bin\release folder is now really full.

To get more clarity in this folder, I was wondering if these dll could be placed in a subdirectory of \bin\release, for example \bin\release\dll.

I'm also wondering why there are *.xml and *.pdb files genereated for every *.dll file in \bin\release. Could this be suppressed?

Thanks for any suggestions! Tobias

CodePudding user response：

You hardly will be able to run your executable without the dependencies. Regarding the .pdb debug info files, a great answer is provided here: Release generating .pdb files, why? Good luck!