This is true but I have both a DEBUG and RELEASE under OBJ as well. The bit that has me totally puzzled is why the DLL under bin/debug won't work as an assembly but the one under OBJ/debug will. -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jared Stofflett Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 12:12 PM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Problem Solved I'm not sure when it changed, but it's because of the way building works under visual studio. By default you have a debug build which contains all the information you need to debug your app. If you want to deploy your app you just change build configuration to release, rebuild, and the produced binarys are in bin/release for easy distrubution and don't contain any debug info. Chris Hofstader wrote: > Hi, > > For reasons only Microsoft can explain, I found that I had a DLL under > bin/debug and under obj/debug. I've always put files with .obj, .o, and > other pre-linked files in the OBJ directory and under BIN, I would put > post-linked files like .exe, .dll etc. When did this convention change? > > Feeling really old... > > cdh > > __________ > View the list's information and change your settings at > //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind > > > > __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind __________ NOD32 2898 (20080223) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com __________ View the list's information and change your settings at //www.freelists.org/list/programmingblind