Error “Metadata file ‘…\Release\project.dll’ could not be found in Visual Studio”

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Everyone is correct…try everything…(in order of a little to a lot of time wasted)

  1. Do you have bad code? Fix that first.
  2. Clean Solution & Restart Visual Studio
  3. Remove / Add References
  4. Check your build order w/ larger projects and verify
  5. Manually rebuild sub-projects
  6. Manually copy dlls between projects into associated bin folders
  7. Go get some coffee, play some pinball and come back tomorrow…you may think of something else in the meanwhile.

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