Reference appears as excluded in Visual studio

Question

I have created my own class library. I added the dll from that class library into my web application project. Everything works fine. I can call the classes from that lib etc... However when I open my bin folder from VS 2008, then I do not see my dll. I can see it only when I click "show all files" icon from the solution explorer.

Now when I take a look at my references tab from my project properties I can see the DLL and the path is still pointing to the bin folder of my 3rd class lib and the Copy Local is set to true. I already cleaned my wap project/recompiled it etc.. I am not sure why its doing that.

Answer 1

How exactly did you add the dll into your project? If all you did was add a reference to the file location, then it's perfectly normal you're not seeing the DLL in Solution Explorer. Why do you need to see it if you can acess the classes fine?

To see it in Solution Explorer you need to add it explicitly...(Show All Files, right-click, Include in Project) If you've done that and you still can't see it... well THEN we have a mystery. :)