Multi Solution Application

[Heiko]

Hi there,

 

in order to increase the overall development performance I've split my solution into 6 smaller ones, each with one to three DLLs plus one Executable.

 

Now I am a bit in a mess with the references.

 

Is there any good advice ?

 

Any settings that I don't know of, which allow me to, for example, recompile my Core.dll and then have this new build if core.dll refenced in all other projects (and not the previous version) ?

 

I am asking because I am getting these "can not be copied to target directory (or so, my message is in German)" errors all the time.

 

Or - another idea - is there an "ant-like" tool around for such tasks? Either buiding the whole set, or re-importing the references ?

 

Any hints?

 

Thanks

Heiko

[Robby]

Did you create a solution with all 6 projects in it?

[Heiko]

No, I creatred 6 or so solutions. Some solutions with one project in it, some solutions with up to 3 projects in them.

 

I configured the references *not* to be local copies.

 

This worked fine at compile time, at runtime, however, the exe could not access the dlls. I suppose I have to work on the framework settings here because the /bin paths of all the projects are in the reference-path setting.

 

I switched the references to local copies in the project that builds the exe and voila - it starts.

 

That's fine for the first test, but I can't do that forever.

Edited February 24, 2004 by Heiko