Placing C# Project References in a Subfolder

Question

I have a solution with multiple projects that all output dlls (except for the main application of course). Copy local is set to true for all of the references and everything is fine and dandy with dlls in the same directory as the exe.

My problem is that this is ugly. I'd like to put all the dll's in a subfolder (actually two subfolders down to be precise). How can I do this in Visual Studio 2008?

I've found a few questions that seem similar but I couldn't find the simple answer that I know has to exist.

EDIT: To be clearer, I want to know how to make the assembly loader look for references somewhere besides the operating directory. Users will be interacting with some of the other files in the directory, and the less clutter there is for them the better.

EDIT 2: I also want to avoid using the GAC. The application needs to be self contained.

Answer 1

Have you tried the AppDomain namespace?

AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AppendPrivatePath

http://www.vcskicks.com/csharp_assembly.php

Answer 2

Or AssemblyResolve

public static class AssemblyResolver { 
    static AssemblyResolver() { 
        AppDomain.CurrentDomain.AssemblyResolve += new ResolveEventHandler(delegate(object sender,  ResolveEventArgs args) {
            return Assembly.LoadFrom(...); 
        }); 
    }  
}