Hi,

How do you bring a vb file from one solution into another and have the classes be available?

I'm doing a VB ASP.NET project, and want to bring in a vb file that has all the classes from my E-Commerce providers API. When I try to inherit from that file, I get the blue underline and the message that the type is not defined.

Thanks!

I think I may have answered my own question. in the solution explorer, you have to right click the file, and select "add to project" Pretty lame actually, because if you've bothered to add it to the solution, no doubt you also want it in the project.

Also, their API came with some DLLs that I had to add a reference to.

Does anyone know a good online explanation of solutions vs. projects and how VS.NET organizes and builds them?

Thanks.

Solution: Collection of projects.
Project: Collection of files (code/pages/xml/etc.). Each project represents one assembly (EXE or DLL).

You can put files in a solution, but they are not compiled. In order to add compiled code to an application, you must put the code file in a project.

Visual studio will determine what order to build the projects based on the projects' references.


How did you add the file to the solution? Usually, if you drag a drop a file on to a project file, it will copy the file to the project's physical directory and add the file to the project tree.