Can I build 2 or more dlls from C# project in Visual Studio 2008?

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Can I build 2 or more dlls from C# project in Visual Studio 2008?

Because I'm working on Creating RIA Framework with Silverlight & C#. So I need to use rich features of Silverlight such as dynamic loading. But I found that Visual Studio will merge all class library(same namespace or difference namespace) into one dll.

Do you have any idea to build 2 or more dlls from C# project? I just create 1 project for 1 child page. So If I have 100 child pages in my solution, I will create 100+ projects for this solution that doesn't make sense.

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Just make additional projects within your solution to get different assemblies (dlls).

Brian Rasmussen 2009-04-27 03:37:48

I think it's very compicate solution when I have 100 or more projects in 1 solution. Moreover, It need very big space for keep same share dll.

Soul_Master 2009-04-27 03:44:15

If you don't need to edit all 100+ assemblies at the same time, you can just reference some of the assemblies instead of including them as projects.

Brian Rasmussen 2009-04-27 03:46:02

I don't get your problem, do you have multiple projects or not? If you do, you should be getting multiple DLL's already.

Blindy 2009-06-02 18:42:39

You cannot produce more than one dll from a project. And its not practical to create hundreds of projects - one for each class.

So why not just create the one dll and dynamically load that?

Naren 2009-04-27 03:40:15

Because I need to load a small dll(< 100 KB per child page). Or you have idea to create small dll from big dll? Please help me. Thanks.

Soul_Master 2009-04-27 05:46:27

The only thing I can think of doing is using something like 'mygeneration' or 'codesmith' which generates a new project for every file in your project - each containing just the one file/class. For doing a release build, you would need a separate solution file which includes all the tiny projects whereas for dev purposes, you can use a solution with the single project. Having said this, There really should not be a problem with loading just one big dll. If its loaded only once per app domain, the overhead will be minimal.

Naren 2009-04-27 23:48:21

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