Adding references to other projects in Visual Studio 2012

Question

I have a solution with 4 projects in it.

Test.Common Test.Controller (Controllers for the Web project) Test.Data (EntityFramework) Test.Web (MVC4)

When I go to add a reference to my Data layer to my Controller project and browse to my Data project's directory, should I be using the dll from the 'bin/Debug' directory or the 'obj' directory? And, does it make a difference?

Answer 1

Neither.

You should add a Project reference (from the Solution section)

This will make Visual Studio resolve the reference from the project system, making features like Go to Definition and automatic rebuild work.

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Outside your solution, you should add from bin.