2 projects 1 solution- sharing classes?

Question

I am new to windows mobile development and also Visual Studio.

I am developing a web service as well as a mobile application. I have the 1 solution, but 2 different projects.

I have created a class in the web service (say project 1), but want to be able to use this class in the mobile application (say project 2).

Do I have to basically create a copy of it and reference it in the other project?

Answer 1

There are two possible solutions:

1. Create a third project to contain the shared class and add it as a reference in the other two.
2. Keep the class in a single file, but add it to each project as a link, as explained here .

Answer 2

No, you do not need to create copy. Instead, add a reference to project1 in the project2 .

Right-click [References->Add Reference...] in project2 , pick the "Projects" tab, select project1 , and click [OK].

Answer 3

make your common class as a class library and save it in the form of .dll

whenever you require that class just add its reference to your project and use it :)

This is called re-use one of the best feature of OOPS

Answer 4

it defeats the purpose of SOA... It becomes Tightly coupled project. One should not add.. Two different layers.. "add as a reference".