Windows Azure copying native dependencies

Question

I have the following configuration:
1. Cloud project
2. Web role
3. Worker role
The worker role references a c++/cli assembly, that in turn depends upon a native assembly, all built as part of the same solution. When packaging up the cloud service for deployment, it seems that none of the native dll's are copied into the csx
folder.
So far, the only solutions seem to be variants on using CopyLocal, however this is not suitable for my situation as we're using the Team Build System and hence the location of the required dll's will depend upon whether we're building locally or on a build
server, as well as which combination of platform / configuration we're using.
Is there a way to force msbuild to follow the native dependencies and copy these to the csx folder? 
Many thanks,
Ben

Answer 1

hi Ben,
Thanks for posting!
For your situation, I suggest you could refer to this tutorials about Best Practices for Running Unmanaged Code in Azure Applications (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh694038.aspx
). In those sections, you may need use the StartUp script to copy the DLL files. And you could refer to this similar thread (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11122213/windows-azure-not-finding-dll-of-c-cli-project
). Please try it.
Regards,
Will
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