Re: How to stop updating DLLs?


"Brett Romero" <account@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Say I have four projects - one is an EXE and three are DLLs. The EXE
> references all three DLLs. If I update one of the DLLs and compile,
> next time I run my EXE project, it will get the latest version of the
> changed DLL and use it. How do I keep the EXE project from getting the
> latest version of a DLL? I'd like it to use the version in its bin
> folder (b/c copy local is true).
>


Create a \lib folder as a sibling to your exe's .bin folder. Deploy the
..DLL's there and use a binary reference instad of a project reference. Then
the EXE, when built, will copy the version in the \lib folder instead of the
latest version.

David


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