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After looking around a bit in the Visual Studio UI, I found the right way to include the child project as a reference, but not actually copy files to the mother project.

I ended up setting Copy Local to No and Copy Local Satellite Assemblies to No. I'm not sure if I needed both of those set to No, but it seems to have done the trick.

This resulted in the following changes done to the csproj:

<ProjectReference Include="..\Child\Child.csproj">
  <Private>False</Private>
  <CopyLocalSatelliteAssemblies>False</CopyLocalSatelliteAssemblies>
</ProjectReference>

I still don't know what setting ReferenceOutputAssembly to false was supposed to do, but it wasn't what I wanted.

And second thing was the post-build event on the mother project:

echo Creating Target Directory: "$(ProjectDir)$(OutDir)Child"
mkdir "$(ProjectDir)$(OutDir)Child"
xcopy /y /e /i "..\Child\bin\$(Configuration)\$(TargetFramework)\$(RuntimeIdentifier)" "$(ProjectDir)$(OutDir)Child\"

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