Duplicate Project GUID

[Doug Bell]

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]

Solved it by hacking the .sln file

 

[Brian Henry]

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

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

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.

 

[Brian Henry]

could be

Maybe the OP created a copy of the original project.