What do you do about references when unloading a project in Visual Studio?

Question

When you unload a project in Visual Studio, any referencing projects get warning triangles on their reference to the unloaded project. I\'ve written myself a macro to do cle

Answer 1

For my projects, I create an assemblies folder which the projects automatically copy into from a set location to which other projects copy builds.

Post-build for referenced assembly's project:

if not exist "C:\builds\Project1" md "C:\builds\Project1\"
copy "$(TargetDir)$(TargetName).*" "C:\builds\Project1\"

Pre-build for referencing projects:

if exist "c:\builds\Project1\" copy "c:\builds\Project1*.*" "$(ProjectDir)assemblies"

The project file points to its assemblies subfolder for references so even if the source projects are unloaded from the solution, the last-built assemblies will be used without the performance problems of having the whole project in memory while developing.