First off... you don't reference classes, you reference assemblies.
A reference can be project reference or a binary reference. Which are you using?
From the sounds of it you are referencing an EXE. This is not how it is done usually. This might be the source of your problem. You should create a class library instead and reference that from both the EXE and other project(s).
You say "It does not find my namespace or classes." Can you elaborate? Are you getting a build error? What is the error exactly?
-Peter
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