title: Configurations from External Projects in Visual Studio 2012
body: <p>I am having a problem with Visual Studio 2012, and I am hoping there is a solution to this. I have in my solution 2 projects:  1 project is an ".exe" project, and the other is a ".lib" project.  I have added the lib project as a reference in the exe project, and I have ensured that it is scheduled to be compiled first.  The lib project has a bunch of additional include directories and a bunch of additional dependencies and linked libraries.  The lib project compiles fine.  However, none of the additional include directories or additional library directories or dependencies are being inherited by the exe application.  I was able to resolve this by copying the configurations to the exe project, but that means that if I ever update the lib dependencies, then I need to update it in every project that uses this library (I play to use this library for multiple projects).  This seems like something that there should be a solution for, but I just can't seem to find it.  Has anyone figured out a way to have projects  inherit the configurations of referenced projects, or is there no way around this?  Thanks.</p>