Visual Studio 2012 Publish DLL as artifact for other project

Question

i have two Applications, using some DLL´s of each other. 1st App has 8 DLL Projects in the Solution and 1 Winforms Project 2nd App has 4 DLL Projects in the Solution and 1 Winforms Project

App1 usees 5 of the DLL´s Projects of App2, and App2 uses 2 DLL Priojects of App1.

ATM i copy the DLL from one App to an Lib Folder of the other App and reference to it. But i have to copy it again when i change things.

Is there a simple solution where i can put it on a FileShare without Team Solution?

And when TS is the only way, what are the best practices on it.

Regards Lord_Pinhead

Answer 1

Well I guess you have three possible solutions.

• Side by side

If you want to keep your app portable you could set up a side by side implementation. Create a core folder Put the shared DLL's in there and then reference them that path. Remember to turn off copy local.

Gotcha

Bare in mind though that if a fresh pull of the source is pulled and the core folder cannot be found then there will be issues.

• Nuget

This solution would require more effort than the side by side implementation but is probably the best solution https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/mvpawardprogram/2016/06/28/creating-nuget-packages/

• GAC

The issue with this solution is your apps would no longer be portable.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/yf1d93sz(v=vs.110).aspx

Answer 2

You can create a postbuild script to copy the dll to desired folders or others app folders:

take a look at Msdn Doc