If you want to use the assemby in more than one solution, you can create a shared assembly and add it to the GAC. You will need to create a Strong Name for the assembly and go through the extra steps for deployment.

>Cathi...
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>Thanks for responding. That's basically what I suspected. So here's my question....is there any way around this? If I make a bug fix or whatever to an external DLL that is utilized by other forms/apps/DLLs/etc, can I deploy in such a way that I don't need to recompile everything?
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>Instead of adding the reference in Solution Explorer, what if I added the DLL as a namespace [using "name of DLL"]...would that work?
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>Thanks,
>Kevin