Multiple Projects, single code file

[Jody Gelowitz]

Within ASP.NET, is it possible to use a single .vb file and have it shared
(or accessed) between multiple projects without having that file being
copied to each project folder?

ie.
C:\Projects\MyProject1 (project 1)
C:\Projects\MyProject2 (project 2)
C:\Projects\CommonFiles\MyCommonFile.vb (common file directly accessed
and compiled from Project1 and Project2)

The error that I get when manually editing the project file to do this is:
"The file '...{filename}' could not be added to hte project. The specified
path contains invalid characters, is an absolute path, or is a path outside
of the project directory."

I realize that another option would be to take what is in "CommonFiles" and
compile that into its own assembly, then reference that assembly between the
2 projects. But, I would like to explore the option of having each project
point to a common file and include that code into each compiled assembly
first.

Thanks,
Jody

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

What you need to do is compile
MyCommonFile.vb and place it in the GAC.

There it will be available to all applications.