projects-and-solutions

Many times I have seen Visual Studio solutions which have multiple projects that share source files. These common source files are usually out in a common directory and in the solution explorer their icon shows up with a link arrow in the bottom left. However, any time I try to add a source file to the project that is outside of that project's main directory, it just automatically copies it into the directory so that I no longer have a shared copy. I found that I can get around this by manually opening the project file in a text editor and modifying the path to something like "../../../Common

I have .csproj project and I want to reference other project that is .xproj , everything looks fine but when I try to build solution then I cannot because the .dll is missing. When i reference the .dll from \bin\release\net452\... itself then everything is ok. How to fix that? EDIT: I am not looking for workarounds - now I am using gulp with gulp.move(). It works fine but it feels dirty... It is not possible to reference a xproj from a csproj directly. You have 2 possible solutions for this. A) Deploy the xproj as a NuGet package and use the NuGet package in your csproj. B) Convert your csproj

When I right-click my solution in the Solution Explorer and choose Properties I get a dialog where I can select the Startup Project. I sometimes select Current selection (If it is an experimental solution with lots of projects I jump between), but most often it is a Single startup project selected, which would usually be the main WinForms applications or or Console application. My problem is that whenever I do a treeclean with the tfpt command (Team Foundation Power Tools 2008) this setting is forgotten. So when I try to run my solution the next time, it has defaulted to some random project

I'm running Visual Studio 2017, version 15.0.0+26228.9 When I'm trying to create a new project via File > New > Project... in Visual Studio 2017, I'm receiving the following error message and the project is not created: Access denied (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) Don't mind the german message text in the screenshot: This happens for every project template I use (e.g. C# WPF, VB WPF, C# Console App...). If I try to create a project via the quick search box on the starting page of visual studio, VS just crashes instantly with no exception message at all: Has anybody else