ASP.NET and Visual Studio - Adding project references vs Bin Folder DLL

Question

I just started a new job yesterday and this is only my second job working in ASP.NET. We were setting up my dev box and were having trouble with some third party components like

Answer 1

I always preffer to have project reference rather than having DLL reference. Below are the main reason for it.

• The project, which is adding the reference of other project, will not be up to date.
• Any change to the referred project will not directly reflect. User has to manully delete the old reference and add new reference.