Add an assembly to your Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Package
If you are familiar with WSP-builder for development with SharePoint 2007, the way of adding assemblies to your SharePoint 2010 project is a little different. You always start with an empty SharePoint project. From here you can add other items. In WSP-builder you had the bin and GAC folder in Visual Studio.
To add an assembly to your Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint Package (SharePoint 2010)
- Open you Package.package file.
- On the bottom of the window you can choose: Design | Advanced | Manifest
- Choose Advanced
You can choose for an excisting assembly or the output assembly of your project.
You can deploy the assembly to the GAC (C:\Windows\Assembly - The Global Assembly Cache, full trusted) or the WebApplication (actually the Bin Folder of your WebApplication in your InetPub folder of your WebServer).