Can I create an ASP.NET MVC 2 project with multiple areas without referencing each Child in the parent area?

Question

This is a follow-up question to my original query: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1791605/how-can-i-use-multiple-projects-to-separate-a-large-asp-net-mvc-site-into-departm

Now that I have this working, is there a way to still have multiple project but not have to reference each child area from the parent project? Ideally I'd like to be able to have multiple, separate and distinct projects that only come together on the production/test machines. I should be able to build and test each "area" separately.

Answer 1

Not in MVC 2 Beta. Perhaps a future release.