Home/ Questions/Q 3491948
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-18T11:41:55+00:00

I have a solution with several projects most of which are code or control

  • 0

I have a solution with several projects most of which are code or control libraries. I have a main windows forms application that references and uses these libraries. What i am trying to do is create a 2nd windows application that extends the main one, but i would like to be able to deploy them as separate exe’s.

When i try to add a reference to the new app referencing the main app; all seems fine until i try to run the new app i get several error msgs similar to below: 

Error   1   Could not find file 'ADODB.dll' referenced by assembly 'D:\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\X\XX\bin\Debug\XXX.exe.manifest'.    <newAppName>

i have tried adding references to all the dll’s in the error messages and they are still listed when i try to run the new app. I thought of a few work arounds but they require user changes to maintain separate exe’s at deployment. I would like to avoid this if possible. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance, Jeff

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    ok i found a reasonable work around. Basically you add all the reused forms as existing items, but instead of just clicking add you click the drop down arrow and choose add as link.

    It would be great to redesign as JTew suggested above but this gets me where i need to be without having to move code.

    You can find more information here

    Thanks for all your time looking this over and hopefully is helpful to more

    Jeff Spo

    • 0