"Doug Bell" <d**@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I have been having problems getting a Project to reference another project
> in as VS Solution.
>
> I believe that the reason the reference is not accepted is because another
> project that is referenced has the same GUID in its Assembly Info.
>
> ie
> 'The following GUID is for the ID of the typelib if this project is
exposed
> to COM
>
> <Assembly: Guid("977736B3-AE00-4572-9443-C1001ED8486E")>
>
>
>
> Can someone advise how I can fix this. I haven't yet tried but can I
simply
> change one of the Projects GUIDs or is there a checksum?
>
> Is there someway to get the GUID to update?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Doug
>
> PS
>
> This came about because I needed a similar project in this solution, one
> project is the DataAccessTier retrieves data froa a BPCS database, the new
> project, DataExtractTier  exports some other data into an Access Database
> (or optionally CSV or XML).
>
> I created the secon Project by renaming the first (DataAccessTier) to
> DataAccessTier1, copying the directory and renaming it. Then added the
> project to the solution (it had the old name DataAccessTier). I renamed it
> to DataExtractTier  and then renamed DataAccessTier1 back to
DataAccessTier.
> Then did a fair bit of editing to DataExtractTier.
>
>
>
>
>

"Doug Bell" <d**@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:un$vgqEfFHA.3780@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> I have been having problems getting a Project to reference another project
> in as VS Solution.
>
> I believe that the reason the reference is not accepted is because another
> project that is referenced has the same GUID in its Assembly Info.
>
> ie
> 'The following GUID is for the ID of the typelib if this project is
> exposed
> to COM
>
> <Assembly: Guid("977736B3-AE00-4572-9443-C1001ED8486E")>
>
>
>
> Can someone advise how I can fix this. I haven't yet tried but can I
> simply
> change one of the Projects GUIDs or is there a checksum?
>
> Is there someway to get the GUID to update?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Doug
>
> PS
>
> This came about because I needed a similar project in this solution, one
> project is the DataAccessTier retrieves data froa a BPCS database, the new
> project, DataExtractTier  exports some other data into an Access Database
> (or optionally CSV or XML).
>
> I created the secon Project by renaming the first (DataAccessTier) to
> DataAccessTier1, copying the directory and renaming it. Then added the
> project to the solution (it had the old name DataAccessTier). I renamed it
> to DataExtractTier  and then renamed DataAccessTier1 back to
> DataAccessTier.
> Then did a fair bit of editing to DataExtractTier.
>
>
>
>
>

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hirf-spam-me-here@gmx.at> wrote in message
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> "Brian Henry" <nospam@newsgroups.microsoft> schrieb:
>> same GUID? wow... that's virtually impossible theoretically unless they
>> where manually edited to be the same... if they were generated they
>> should theoretically never repeat
>
> Maybe the OP created a copy of the original project.
>
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