Referencing binaries from one project in another

Question

Newbie question : I have 2 C# projects in TeamCity, call them A and B. A contains a reference to B.dll. B builds fine. However, A fails to build because it cannot find B : Could not locate the assembly "B"

It seems really simple : how do I tell my project A on the buildserver where to find the binaries from B\bin\Release?

Answer 1

You do this by creating 'Artifacts' and artifact dependencies.

If project A is dependent on project B, then you create an Artifact on project B using an artifact path like so:

bin/Release/B.dll

Then on project A you setup a artifact dependency on B with path like:

B.dll

And set the destination path to be where ever project A is expecting to find B.dll e.g.

./Libs

You can do other cool stuff like automatically archiving all your artifacts into a zip by using the syntax:

bin/Release/*.dll => B.zip

and access them via:

B.zip!B.dll

All these paths are relative to build directories so makes it easy and you dont need to worry about the TeamCity guid folders or use absolute paths.