title: Where to place the dependencies for shared assemblies in Azure Functions
body: <p>I am facing strange issues with privates assemblies in azure functions, I have an Azure Function App with five functions which have a shared bin folder where I place my assemblies, these assemblies in turn depend on Entity Framework and LinqKit for which I have added dependencies in all the project.json files for each function but private assemblies are unable to get reference to these and failing. Please help.
  Project.json --</p>
  
  <pre><code>{
    "frameworks": {
      "net46":{
        "dependencies": {
           "EntityFramework": "6.1.3",
           "Newtonsoft.Json": "9.0.1",
           "LinqKit": "1.1.7.2"
        }      
      }
     }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>To clarify further in my Function App I have five different functions which depend on 2 private assemblies and I do not want to keep separate copies (as this might cause different versions of the same dll in different folder causing issues) in each function so I have created a shared bin folder from where the private assemblies are referenced but the issue happens as these private assemblies further depend on some nuget  packages which they are not able to find them --</p>
  
  <pre><code>#r "..\bin\Marketware.Domain.dll"
  #r "..\bin\Marketware.AzureIntegration.dll"
  
  using System;
  using System.Collections.Generic;
  using System.Data.Entity;
  using System.Diagnostics.Eventing.Reader;
  </code></pre>