Why can't I reference my class library?

Question

I have a solution that contains a website and a class library in Visual Studio 2008.

I then have another web site project outside of the solution that needs to refe

Answer 1

I had this problem. It took me ages to figure out. I had people over my shoulder to help. We rebuilt, cleaned and restarted Visual studio and this didn't fix it. We removed and re-added the references...

All to no avail.... Until!

The solution to my problem was that my class declaration was spelt incorrectly.

Before you start judging me harshly, allow me to explain why it wasn't stupid, and also why this mistake could be made by even the most intelligent of programmers.

Since the mistake was early on in the name, it wasn't appearing in the intellisense class listing when I began typing.

e.g.

Class name: Message.cs

Declaration:

public class Massage
{
    //code here

}

At a glance and in a small font, Massage looks identical to Message.

Typing M listed too many classes, so I typed e, which didn't appear in the mistyped version, which gave the impression that the class wasn't being picked up by the compiler.