Add a project reference to a project in C# using command line

April 01, 2024, Abdush Miah

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Step 1

cd (change directory) into the directory in which your solution/projects exist.

In the below example we are adding a project reference for the MyProject.DataAccess project into the MyProject.Api project:

dotnet add ./MyProject.Api/MyProject.Api.csproj reference ./MyProject.DataAccess/MyProject.DataAccess.csproj 

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