How to Reference .xproj into .csproj?

Question

I have .csproj project and I want to reference other project that is .xproj, everything looks fine but when I try to build solution then I cannot because the .dll is missing. When i reference the .dll from \bin\release\net452\... itself then everything is ok. How to fix that?

EDIT: I am not looking for workarounds - now I am using gulp with gulp.move(). It works fine but it feels dirty...

Answer 1

It is not possible to reference a xproj from a csproj directly.

You have 2 possible solutions for this.

A) Deploy the xproj as a NuGet package and use the NuGet package in your csproj.

B) Convert your csproj to a xproj.

Note: the xproj must support your used .NET csproj. net451 etc.

Here's an example of a csproj referencing a xproj NuGet package

https://github.com/damienbod/ElasticsearchCRUD/tree/master/samples/ConsoleElasticsearchCrudExample