title: Force a reference to be absolute using Visual Studio
body: <p>When adding a reference to a web application project in VS (2008 in this case), the "hintpath" in the csproj file is being created as a relative reference.  Is there a way (using the GUI, not manually editing the file) to make this an absolute reference (i.e. C:\Temp\DllName.dll)?</p>
  
  <p>The issue I am running into is when seperate build machines have a different working directories for the project.  When the reference is relative, and the referenced dll is not within the project working directory, the relative reference may not point to the same location on both machines.  </p>