I have a solution in visual studios. 2 of the projects it contains are test projects. 2 are actual software to be deployed. 1 of these projects is stand alone the other, lets call this project B. The main project, lets call it project A, references project B’s dll file.
Both of these projects have some content that needs to be copied to output. They both work fine on their own; however, when project A builds and launches it does not pull project B’s content. This would make sense of course since the only thing it references is a dll. Furthermore, it doesn’t do any installation of project B it just has a reference to it.
I think ideally some step in there would allow me to have both project A and B both installed and run (this is a powerpoint add-in btw), and their assets potentially merged. If needed their assets can be separate, but I just need to make a calls to project B from A and have it return me some files.
I think this might sound more complicated than it is.
You can have Visual Studio “link” a representation of B’s content files in A… see this article