References in VS.Net 2003

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From: Urs Vogel (uvogel_at_msn.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:04:14 +0200

Hi

I observed that my solutions frequently changes the location of references.
I have a number of shared DLLs in my solution, used by different
applications. When adding the reference in the IDE withing the project,
they're automatically set to Copy Local, and it looks OK in the beginning.
As soon as I recompile, it changes the directory of some references to the
local directory of the application. It doesn't do it with all references,
and I couldn't figure out a pattern of which references are changed. The
whole solution and its applications are dependent from these DLLs, which I
set in 'dependencies' within each project. When finally building the
solution, I have to very careful that the latest versions of my DLLs are
included. This is really dagnerous in terms of QA...

Any hints where this could come from, or what I could do about it?

Thanks for any hints, Urs

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