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Nope - its not great.

I have a project "Build" containing the task that builds first. A project "Publish" builds last and uses the Build.Publish task to do its work.

All works well the first build. Then you make a change to "Build", rebuild and you still can't copy the Build DLL into its bin directory. Worse you can't do it until you kill off the instance of Visual Studio you're building with.

It all works if devenv.exe is executed from the command-line, but I wanted to avoid that if possible. Oh well.