title: Reference third-party class libraries
body: <p>I am working with .Net Core 1.0 (running under the .Net Framework 4.6.1, non-portable).</p>
  
  <p>I need to include some DLLs that are from a locally-built GitHub project.  When I build those projects, and then attempt to "Add Reference" to the resulting DLLs, I get a message saying I can't add them to a Core project directly.</p>
  
  <p>After more research, I found a lot of information regarding "private" NuGet packages.  However, those seem overly complex / overly engineered.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way I can do the following: </p>
  
  <p>Without having to go through the headache of creating a private NuGet repository, can I just "add reference" to the built assemblies that are sitting in the bin folder of the NuGet projects I pulled?</p>
  
  <p>I <em>really</em> don't want to have to build a local-only NuGet package.  Mostly because I've already wasted too much time on this issue, and because I read this entire concept is about to be scrapped and turned into something else (sounds familiar by now)... such as the Roslyn-based build system on GitHub.</p>
  
  <p>My current state:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Visual Studio Professional 2015</li>
  <li>.Net Core 1.0.1</li>
  <li>.Net Core 1.0.1 Tooling Preview 2</li>
  </ul>