Compiling single C# project to multiple DLLs

Question

Background: Custom workflow activities for Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

Currently we have one project per custom activity, with a single class file in each project.

We would like to have a single project, with multiple class files, each compiling to a separate DLL to allow us to update them individually.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

I don't think you can do this directly in Visual Studio, but, if you manually invoke the compiler in a script or makefile, it should be pretty straightforward.

For example, csc /t:library /out:MyCodeLibrary.dll simpleType.cs compiles simpleType.cs to MyCodeLibrary.dll .

You could run this as a post build step, to generate the assemblies you want. However, just be careful that whoever is using the project understands what is going on... most developers would expect a single project to produce a single dll.

Answer 2

You can have a single solution, with multiple projects. Building the solution compiles each of the projects. Is this not what you want?