Metadata file ... could not be found error when building projects

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Every time I start Visual Studio 2008, the first time I try to run the project I get the error CS0006 The metadata file ... could not be found. If I do a rebuild of the complete solution it works.

Some information about the solution:

I'm building in debug mode and Visual Studio complains about not finding dll:s in the release folder.
The projects Visual Studio complains about are used by many other projects in the solution.
I have changed the default output path of all projects to a ......\build\debug\ProjectName and ......\build\release\ProjectName respectively. (Just to get all build files in one directory)
I have the same problem with a another solution.
The solution was created from scratch.
There are 9 projects in the solution. One WPF and 8 class libraries using dotnet 3.5.

Any ideas on what is causing this problem?

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