Why do I get a warning icon when I add a reference to an MEF plugin project?

Question

I wish to test the core class of a plugin by directly referencing the plugin project and instantiating the plugin class. When I create a test Console App project and add a p

Answer 1

I had these icons for a different reason. We have one big solution for all our projects (nearly 100). I made a subselection of the projects I was interested in and made a new solution. However the references where project references instead of references to the compiled dll's....

After some research I found this link on GitHub which explains this is new behaviour in VS2015.

On the GitHub page they explain a workaround for converting project references to binary references.