Visual Studio woes

[jparsons]

I have a server that I am writing for my company. The obvious product is an executeable. I also run NUnit for my Unit Test. I don't think it is good style to have the Test Cases be apart of the relase code or in the same project. So I am running a multi project solution in Visual Studio.

Here comes the fun.

I need to reference code in my executeable so that I can test it with NUnit. Visual Stuiod won't let mea dd a reference to an executeable. It says it's not possible. So I wrote a batch file that will go through, copy the executeable into a directory and rename it to a DLL. This works as a temporary solution. Everything works great.

More fun.

I made a change to the actual code and reflected it in the test code. Now my project won't build because the test code has the old DLL. And as far as I can tell there is no way to make Visual Studio compile just one of my projects. If I click on Build it gives me the option to copmpile just one of my projects but it goes ahead and compiles both of them.

Does anybody know hwo to get any of these thngs to work

1) Get Visual STuiod to add a reference to a .exe
2) Compile just one project in a multi project solution

[jparsons]

Originally posted by jparsons
1) Get Visual STuiod to add a reference to a .exe
2) Compile just one project in a multi project solution

I have fixed the solution yet I have not figured out how I solved it. I had to fix a large number of errors in the project I didn't want compiled and then it agreed to compile the project I actually wanted compiled. Ridiculous

[V. Lorenzo]

Hi:

If you want to share some code, reuse it from other projects, the code must be placed in a separated DLL, and reference this DLL in the client projects. Not as part of an executable.

The .NET IDE indeed has an option for compiling just one project, not all the solution.

- Show the Solution Explorer (ctrl+alt+L).
- Right Click the project you want to compile.
- Select the option Build.

This will make a build for the selected project. If the code from some of it's depencies have been modified, the modified dependency will also be compiled.

This funcionality may also be obtained from the Build item in main menu. The first three options are for the solution, the second three are for the project that owns the currently selected source file.

VictorL

[jparsons]

Originally posted by V. Lorenzo
Hi:

If you want to share some code, reuse it from other projects, the code must be placed in a separated DLL, and reference this DLL in the client projects. Not as part of an executable.


Yeah I mentioned that. The problem is that it works if you rename an executeable to a dll. So I would like to be able to do this without having to rename it to a DLL but VS isn't liking that ( as I pointed out earlier).



The .NET IDE indeed has an option for compiling just one project, not all the solution.

- Show the Solution Explorer (ctrl+alt+L).
- Right Click the project you want to compile.
- Select the option Build.


That's what i was dioong when it still tried to compile both.