> I've got a very large solution file, which currently has
> about 100 projects in it. It's not at all feasible to develop
> using the solution file as the build time for even the most
> trivial of changes is unreasonable. Now most of these
> projects are pretty stable, and rarely change, so I would
> like to create smaller solutions with the various dependency
> groups. I am, however, having a hard time doing this.
>
> My problem is that if I make a "Dependencies" solution, which
> has say, 50 relatively stable projects in it, things at first
> seem to work well.
> I can have File references in my "main" solution referencing
> the 50 stable projects, and things all work... until I need
> to debug one of the 50 "stable" projects.
>
> As soon as I load one of my "stable" projects into my "main"
> solution, it has bad references. It's expecting a bunch of
> project references to the other 49 stable projects, but now
> it needs to use file references to them. Equally bad, none of
> the projects in my main solution detect that what was a DLL
> reference should now be a Project level reference.
You shouldn't load one of the 50 stable projects into the main
solution, you should reference debug builds of the stable projects from
the main solution projects and copy hte .pdb files into the debug bin
folder of the main solution.
Then you can simply step into a method which is in fact in one
of the 50 stable projects and the sourcefile will load into the IDE
you're currently debugging in.
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