I am writing a networking library using Google Protocol Buffers. I have a Visual Studio project that performs a custom build step to run the Protobuf compiler, and another project that builds the output classes.
I would like to put the client library and server library in separate solutions. But both depend on the same Protocol Buffers classes. Is it OK if they both contain the Protobuf-related projects?
Edit to clarify: I know it's possible to do this, but I am curious if it's considered good practice or not.
Well, I don't think it's a bad idea, but you might want to consider compiling your protocol buffers project into a .dll file and have your client and server side projects refence that instead. Just cleaner in my opinion.
When you make changes to the .dll you can right click the reference to it in your server and client projects and click Update Reference. Simple as that!