Adding An assenbly into GAC, does not mean you can see it in "Add
References" dialog box in VS.NET. To make the shared assembly show up in the
"ADd Reference" dialog box, you need add a correspoding entry in Windows
registry:
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramewo rk\AssemblyFolders"
But whether the assembly is shown in the "Add Reference" dialog box or not,
does not affect the use of the shared assembly. When you in a project that
need to reference the shared assembly, you can just point to the eference to
the shared assembly's project.
When a app that uses the shared assemly running, it alway looking for the
shared assemly in the GAC first, if not found then it will search other
places, as the app is configured.
"Bill" <nf*@nospam.com> wrote in message
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I created a shared assemble and dropped it into Windows\assembly. Browsing
this directory shows that it is in there and the properties looks as
expected. However, when I attempt to add this as a reference in the IDE,
the name is not showing.
Am I missing something?