RE: Trying to get reference from the GAC
- From: stcheng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steven Cheng[MSFT])
- Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:39:58 GMT
Hi Dave,
From your description, you want to change the .NET framework systemassemblies' reference path (in Visual Studio IDE at development time) from
"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727" to their GAC location,
correct?
Based on my understanding, the system assemblies seems be particularly
processed in the Visual Studio's design-time and will always point to the
framework folder. Also, I don't think it is safe to redirect the reference
path to the GAC path since GAC path is in a customized folder "%system
dir%\assemblies" which is not intended to be used by user directly(other
than the .net clr runtime itself).
If you do want to share the same location of those framework assemblies, I
think you can consider the following means(though it is not documented and
not guranteed to work well):
** For Visual STudio 2005, you can manually add a registry entry to make a
custom folder become one of the search paths when you launch "Add
Reference" dialog in Visual Studio IDE
#Adding assemblies to the Add References dialog in Visual Studio 2005
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/11/28/497693.aspx
** You can move those assemblies you want to share the same physical path
to a custom folder and add that custom folder as one of the search path (as
above)
** In your project, you can try removing those existing reference to .net
framework assemblies and add new reference against the new place to see
whether it works.
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Steven Cheng
Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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