Why won’t my .NET redistributable assemblies show up in Visual Studio’s ‘Add Reference’ dialog?

The Problem You install a .NET redistributable package and want to reference the assemblies in your project. However, though everything is correctly installed to GAC, the assemblies don’t show up in Visual Studio’s Add Reference dialog in the .NET tab (regardless of what version of Visual Studio you have). The Cause Redistributable assemblies are intended … Read more

Redistributable Assemblies, WinSxS and VisualStudio 2005

You might be interested in this topic if you experienced the following problem: developed your VC++ application with Visual Studio 2005, it worked ok on your computer and when you put it on another it does not run, or your application run both on your machine and other machines (without VS 2005 installed), but after … Read more