Visual Studio.Net 2003 EA acting up? or is it me?
Had an enterprise solution corrupt on me, VSS failed miserably and i gave up trying to retrieve it from there. So, i had to rebuild the solution.
Was a larger undertaking as the original solution had 13-14 projects (class libraries, component libraries, web services, windows services, web apps etc).
I eventually got it all right, all dependencies correct, references set up in the right order...everything went fine until i tried to rebuild the solution for the first time.
kept getting this one warning:
Warning: The dependency 'AmcomUtilities, Version=1.0.1893.15741, Culture=neutral' in project 'XXXXXXX_WebUI' cannot be copied to the run directory because it would overwrite the reference 'AmcomUtilities, Version=1.0.1893.26907, Culture=neutral'.
now, AmcomUtilities is a class library that i use virtually everywhere - contains logging, configs, validation, encryption/decryption, custom data types - hell a whole bunch of stuff that's just plain handy...i tried recompiling the utility library, got another version - removed the references to the old one and added the new one. Bang! still the same warning, except the latest version number changed. I've searched high and low and still can't locate ANYTHING in the project that refers to the old class library..nada!
Anybody got any clues as to what's going on? it's a new solution (my machine's getting it's arse beaten and has caused yonks of corruptions in project files, compilations, debugging files etc - but hopefully i'm going to replace this dodgy P4 2.4Ghz with a sparkly dual xeon 2.8Ghz box which i just got quoted a neat price on..). Also i didn't re-use any of the old project files, just removed source bindings on the projects, copied the files elsewhere, removed the old and rebuild a new project with the old files..added the new references and compiled..voila, none throwing an error till the WebUI project where i've doubled and triple checked that there IS NO references to the old version around...at all. Even scoured my machine in order to locate the damned version..and nada..it does not exist anymore!
i'm at my wits end!