I have two Visual Studio solutions. First is a class library that I share among all my projects. Second is the website I am currently working on. I compiled the library into a DLL and and referenced the DLL (not the project) in the second site.
Recently I made some updates in the library and overwrote the referenced DLL in the second solution with the new DLL. However, when I rebuild the solution, the DLL that makes it to the /bin does not have the new code. I have:
- Checked the referenced DLL in Reflector.
- Removed and re-referenced the new DLL in the projects.
- Manually checked the reference in the project’s XML.
Everything looks correct and is pulling from the right places. All projects are .NET 3.5.
What gives? How is it that the referenced assembly has the updated code but the assembly that gets copied to the /bin doesn’t have the new code?
UPDATE
I manually copied the referenced DLL into the site’s /bin after the build and everything ran as expected. Is there a reference somewhere that I am missing?
After deleting and re-adding the references a few dozen more times, it seems to be working now. I have no idea what it was that caused the problem. I don’t want to say that the “problem exists between the keyboard and chair” but I’m not sure what else it could have been since nothing really changed.