Dll reference in Web Application Projects

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Hi all,

I'm trying to figure out how references works in Web Application
Projects. We have a third party dll that we use in many projects. I've
created a folder containing that DLL. That way, when we want to update
the DLL, we simply have to update it in that folder and it should
normally be distributed to all the project that have references to it,
and since it will be in our versioning system, people will simply need
to update to get the new version.

Now, my problem occurs with references in Web Application Projects.
I'm not sure which file I should send to our versioning system so that
the reference will be set correctly for everybody in the Web
Application Projects. Since there is now csproj in WebApplication, I'm
unsure of where the referenc is kept. Would sending the .dll.refresh
file to the versioning system keep the reference ok for everybody or
is it done in another way?

Thank you
Simon Picard

 

[Teemu Keiski]

Hi,

reference is kept in the csproj file. E.g it is told that from which
file/project reference is coming. For example

reference to dll

<Reference Include="nStuff.WebDevHelper.Server, Version=0.5.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8fc0e3af5abcb6c4,
processorArchitecture=MSIL">
<SpecificVersion>False</SpecificVersion>
<HintPath>.\nStuff.WebDevHelper.Server.dll</HintPath>
</Reference>

reference to another project:

<ItemGroup>
<ProjectReference Include="..\MyScripts\MyScripts.csproj">
<Project>{0EF0560C-01A0-4229-9CA0-45A7EB1D620B}</Project>
<Name>MyScripts</Name>
</ProjectReference>
</ItemGroup>

Of course, you would want to put the referenced dll itself also into version
system so that when someone gets updated version, he/she also gets the
updated reference dll.

 

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Thanks for the tip Teepu but my problem is exactly the fact that I
don't have a csproj file. I'm in a Web Application project which has
no csproj file. I would be really happy if I had a csproj, it would be
much easier.

Simon Picard

 

[Teemu Keiski]

Web Application Project is officially the project model with project file.
The other one without - which was default and only one in VS2005 for a
while - is a web site project.

Web Site Project is self-contained (no project files), so all you have on
the site should be enough to keep it up-to-date. E.g including the
referenced dll.

Visual Studio 2005 Web Application Projects
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/Aa336618.aspx