Metadata file … could not be found error when building projects

Question

Every time I start Visual Studio 2008, the first time I try to run the project I get the error CS0006 The metadata file ... could not be found. If I do a rebuild of the comp

Answer 1

I went through all these steps in VS2012, but I kept running into this issue when building the solution as a whole (the individual projects built just fine with no errors).

I found that if you right-click on your Solution in the Solution Explorer and select "Build Order" you can see the order that VS is using to rebuild your solution. It's likely out of whack.

You can correct the build order by clicking on the Dependencies tab and selecting the projects that depends on other projects in the solution and checking the projects they depend on. Once you hit okay and do a rebuild of the solution, you should be good to go.