title: Using an absolute path in probing privatePath
body: <p>In a C# console application, I'm trying to use <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/823z9h8w.aspx"><code>&lt;probing privatePath=""/&gt;</code></a> to point to dlls that are not in my application subdirectories. I'm using:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;runtime&gt;
      &lt;assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"&gt;
          &lt;probing privatePath="D:\Library\References" /&gt;
      &lt;/assemblyBinding&gt;
  &lt;/runtime&gt;    
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This does not work, because privatePath is looking for subdirectories in my application.  Is there a way to use absolute paths in this way?  If not, what is the best way to point to dlls that are located outside of my application?  I also tried using <code>&lt;codebase&gt;</code> with a <code>file:///</code> path, but still got a <code>System.IO.FileNotFound</code> exception.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;runtime&gt;
    &lt;assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"&gt;
      &lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
        &lt;assemblyIdentity 
          name="MyLibrary" publicKeyToken="29989D7A39ACF230" /&gt;
        &lt;codeBase
          version="2.0.0.0"
          href="http://file:///D:/Library/References/NLog.dll"/&gt;
      &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
    &lt;/assemblyBinding&gt;
  &lt;/runtime&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but still got a <code>System.IO.FileNotFound</code> exception.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>