Visual Studio Project Installers - Can these just package assemblies and not build them

I am trying to make some modifications to our build processes which ensure that our vdproj files do not execute builds, they just package already build DLL's from a given location.

Is there any way to do that using configuration settings to devenv.exe? Something like:

devenv /Project WebInstaller /Build Release /UseExistingDLLSFromHere "C:\DLLs"?

I'm aware I could use WIX开发者_运维知识库 to be more flexible, but unfortunately it's a legacy installer which we have to maintain.

Regards, Jamie

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Replace Project Output references with File references if your DLLs are being built by an external process.

I haven't found a reliable way of switching the path of File references based on the configuration though, other than modifying the vdproj in my build script.