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Asked: 2026-05-23T15:36:24+00:00

I produced a DLL from a source project. Let’s call is sourceProject.dll . This

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I produced a DLL from a source project. Let’s call is sourceProject.dll.

This project depends on first.dll, among other DLLs. 

   sourceProject.dll --> first.dll

When I run sourceProject.dll, I get an error that first.dll is “missing one or more project references”.

If I understand correctly, sourceProject.dll is trying to use a class in first.dll, but apparently first.dll has a bad reference to one of its own DLLs. As a result, first.dll gets built again (at the run-time of sourceProject.dll), but it’s built incorrectly. Finally, sourceProject.dll blows up because first.dll is bad.

Is that true?

thanks,
Kevin

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  1. Editorial Team

    When I run sourceProject.dll

    You cannot run DLLs in .NET. You use assemblies in applications which can be of different types (console, WinForms, ASP.NET, …). So if sourceProject.dll depends on first.dll the application that uses sourceProject.dll need to have both assemblies in its working folder (current folder for desktop applications and bin folder for ASP.NET).

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