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Asked: 2026-05-20T14:45:33+00:00

Consider the following: I have a .NET 3.5 project that uses a .NET 1.1

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Consider the following:

I have a .NET 3.5 project that uses a .NET 1.1 dll. When I copy the 1.1 dll into the location referenced by the 3.5 project, the 3.5 project will not compile until I close out Visual Studio and reopen the project. I think this is related to refreshing the reference to the 1.1 dll but I’d like a setting to auto-refresh the references. Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have you tried using a .refresh file? Here is a snippet from Microsoft’s documentation:

    In Visual Studio .NET, referenced
    assemblies (for example, assemblies
    that are referenced outside of the
    solution in which the Web project is
    located) could have the CopyLocal
    property set to true, which would
    automatically update the referenced
    assembly. In Visual Studio 2005, this
    behavior is replaced by creating a
    refresh file in the Bin folder. The
    refresh file contains the path to the
    external referenced assembly and has
    the extension .refresh appended to the
    assembly name.

    Sounds like it would solve your problem. Also, have you tried just setting “CopyLocal” to false for the assembly that isn’t updating.

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