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Visual Studio Hacks
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Visual Studio Hacks

by James Avery
March 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
304 pages
19h 23m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Visual Studio Hacks
Master Assembly and Project References #2
Chapter 1, Master Projects and Solutions
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The majority of the time this process is as simple as selecting what you want
to reference and then clicking the OK button. However, a better understand-
ing of how references work will help avoid headaches when sharing projects
between users and when working with projects under source control. One of
the most frequent issues that developers encounter when working with
shared solutions and projects is broken references.
Assembly References
The first tab that you see in the Add Reference dialog is the .NET tab, which
lists .NET assemblies you can reference in your application. You can add a
reference to any of these assemblies by simply clicking on the assembly and
then the Select button. You can also use the Browse tab or Browse button to
manually browse the filesystem for an assembly.
How the list is created. The list of assemblies displayed in the .NET tab is
based on a set of directories that is configured through the registry. Visual
Studio generates this list by iterating through the .NET Framework direc-
tory as well as any directories configured in the registry. You can add your
own assembly to this list by adding a key to the registry with the directory
your assembly is located in:
1. Open regedit (click Start
Run, then type regedit).
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE if you want to add the direc-
tory ...
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