Best Practices - Versioning Third-Party Controls

[emarthinsen]

Hello-

I'm trying to find the best solution for versioning and referencing third-party controls in a VS.NET project. Right now, I have four ideas:

1. Have the project reference a copy of the controls present in the bin folder.

2. Create a new project that gets added to the solution that only contains third-party controls.

3. Put all of the third-party controls in a network share folder with versions controlled separately from my main solution.

4. Create a new folder in my project called "ThirdPartControls" and reference the assemblies in that.

I'm leaning towards number 4, but my research has only just begun. Does anyone have any guidance? Is this a solved problem?

Regards-
Eric