visual studio .net general: (new to vs.net) I am working with a solution that creates several dlls
written in vb.net.
These dlls use a number of common symbols, defined types and methods which I
would like to put into a .vb file in a "common" folder and have
all the dll projects incorporate this single file into their builds. My
problem is that I can't figure out how to do it. If I try to add an existing
item to all the
projects, the ide copies the file into the each project instead of linking
to a single file. Trying to set a dependency doesn't work either because
that requires an object. I could create a class in another dll but that
seems like a lot of overhead for what should be a simple procedure.

In the Add Existing Item dialog notice that the Open button is a dropdown
button, and the 3rd option is "Link File" which is what you are looking for.

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