Where to Put DLLs to be Used by VS 2017 SSDT

Question

I have an SSRS project that I created using VS 2015 SSDT. It has a reference to barcodelib.dll that's used to create a barcode on the report.

The problem is that I got a new PC, and it uses VS 2017 SSDT. Now every time I run it, I get the error:

Error while loading  code module: The system cannot find the file specified

I have tried adding the dll in every folder for VS on this computer, there's 10 - 14:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio (number from 10-14)\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio (number from 10-14)\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies

But it still cannot find the file.

How do I figure out where it's looking?

Try going to one of the reports that uses the 3rd party barcode and navigate from the tool bar "Report" | "Report Properties" and click on "References". Then once the reference has been updated, you can do a find and replace in the report solution. — aduguid

J.Cart J.Cart · Accepted Answer · 2020-02-06T20:38:51

The location I needed to put the DLL file was: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\SQL\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\SSRS