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title: "How can you tell the application to look for assemblies at the locations other than its own install?"  
description: "How can you tell the application to look for assemblies at the locations other than its own install?"  
author: "Varun Agrawal"  
published: 2011-03-18  
updated: 2020-09-21  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/499/how-can-you-tell-the-application-to-look-for-assemblies-at-the-locations-other-than-its-own-install  
category: "assembly"  
tags: ["assembly"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How can you tell the application to look for assemblies at the locations other than its own install?

Use the directive in the XML .config file for a given application.\
<probing privatePath=”c:\mylibs; bin\debug” /> should do the trick. Or you can add additional search paths in the Properties box of the deployed application.

## Answers

### Answer by Varun Agrawal

Use the directive in the XML .config file for a given application.\
<probing privatePath=”c:\mylibs; bin\debug” /> should do the trick. Or you can add additional search paths in the Properties box of the deployed application.


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