I’m working on an internet application that has been set up as a web SITE project (I know…) in Visual Studio. I need to add additional features/functionality so have added a class library to the project and referred to it in the main web site project.
The issue now arises because I need to make use of core objects which live inside the App_Code directory in the web site project but this project doesn’t appear to expose its DLL like web app/ code library projects do. Because of this I can’t add a reference to the web site project in the class library to leverage the common site-wide code/objects.
I can’t move the stuff out of App_Code so I’m looking for a way to refer to the website project dll from the new class library. Can anyone suggest a workaround? All help v. gratefully received 🙂
You won’t be able to do that. It would create a circular reference.
I’m curious as to why you can’t move stuff out of App_Code. The “proper” way to do what you need would be to create a 3rd “shared” library with the classes that need to be used both in the web site and in the new library, and reference it from both.