title: Add a dependency / reference to your own DLL project in Visual Studio 2013
body: <p>I have been working on a few different applications and I want them all to share the same DLL library.  The shared DLL is one that I created, so really I want each application to have a dependency on the DLL so that the DLL gets built in the same solution as the application.  Then the DLL should copy itself to the application's bin folder before the application runs.</p>
  
  <p>After figuring out how to do this, it seems that it should have only taken about 5 minutes, but unfortunately it took me an hour to figure out.  That's partly because similar questions were referring to older versions of Visual Studio, or referring to 3rd party DLLs.  So I thought I'd post the steps here.</p>