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Beta 2 ASP.NET Project References - Where are they?

 Help I have lost my mind again….In 1.x applications you can see the references your project has via solution explorer and even drill down to properties on the reference and remove it.

In 2.x beta 2 you can do the same for non web site projects but it seems as though they are MIA for ASP.NET sites.

I opened a Feedback  Ticket quite some time ago, and they just marked it resolved as review for next release

Am I the only one that can’t find the references on web site projects? 

Am I the only one that looks at references all the time to see what they are / remove them and likes to know what a site is dependent on?

View the ticket here

Posted: May 01 2005, 12:07 AM by MrDave | with 4 comment(s)

Comments

David Yack said:

Thanks to Wally for pointing out that you can find them now under properties on the project.

I still think that it should be consistent across the types of projects and Web Sites should not be special!
# April 30, 2005 10:32 PM

scottgu said:

The web project model with VS 2005 is new in that it shows you the physical listing of everything in your project directory. We specifically went away from a model where we hid items, or surfaced magical nodes that weren't represented on disk. The main goal being to enable you to get a good view of what your project looks like when it gets deployed. That is why you now need to right click and select properties to see settings like assemblies.

Hope this helps,

Scott
# May 1, 2005 8:36 PM

Alex said:

If referenced assemblies were just copied to the WebSite's bin folder, how can VS2005 update the assemblies when they change in their original location?
# May 2, 2005 4:39 AM

Mike said:

They are under Websites->Start Options->References

# October 23, 2007 3:05 PM
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