While playing with Postsharp for a validation framework i stumbled upon this.
This is a great little code block that stops sneaky team members referencing layers they should not be referencing. a compile time error will ensue and let them know, for example, that they can not access the DAL via the View projects… happy days!
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Rhys Campbell 
This would be a god-send at the last place I worked. Sometimes it felt like the lawless wild west where anything could reference anything (and generally everything!)
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one thing to keep in mind though is that this kind of stuff does slow down the compilation of the project.If you’re doing TDD, then this can become a bit of a pain when working on large solutions
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Thats true Davy, and post sharp is a signifiacnt delay in compilation. How this would be handled if it became a problem?Possibly a local version of the assinfo.cs with the attribute, but thats pretty messy.Possible use a debug block to comment it out, with the build server using a different build profile… hmm
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yeah, if you’re using the technique just to make sure that nobody is using the wrong stuff in places where they shouldn’t, it might be a good idea to just replace the assemblyinfo.cs file on the buildserver so the check only happens there
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