This might be a duplicate question as I have found a few that are similar, but not exactly the same. The title pretty much says it all, but here are the details:
The basic setup I have in VS2008 is two web site projects (not web application projects!) living in the same solution; call them A and B. A depends on B, since B contains a user control which I build into a custom server control.
Ideally, what I would like to do is have a one-click way to build everything: generate the precompiled DLL for B (without having to separately click "Publish") and then build/publish A to my IIS virtual directory. So, how do I accomplish this?
The reason for doing everything in a single click (which "Build Solution" doesn't seem to do right now) is twofold: first, fewer clicks means fewer opportunities to forget a step, or do something out-of-order, and generally less chance of making a mistake (K.I.S.S., right?). Second, I can't figure out how to configure my user control web site project (B) so that it generates the DLL in a location that I specify - or if this is even possible to do. Ideally I could just set it up so that the DLL ends up in "[B's project directory]/bin/debug/" or something like that. I want to avoid using the command line (e.g. msbuild) if possible, since I understand that even less than the VS GUI.
EDIT: Another, related question is - instead of building my ASP.NET user control (which gets built into a custom server control) inside of a Web Site Project (B), is it possible to just build it in a C# class library project, which should solve all of these issues?