Referencing a .Net 4.0 Assembly in the GAC from VS2010

Question

Has anyone done this?

I have created an assembly and installed it to the GAC. It's listed in gacutil and I can see it in c:\windows\microsoft.net\assembly folder.

I have found people saying to add registry keys, but the folders they specify don't exist, and when I create them, my assembly is still not appearing in the list.

I have tried Muse VSExtensions but it doesn't find the assembly either, I don't think it picks up the .net 4 assembly folder.

I have managed to add a reference to my assembly by manually editing the project file to add the reference. This worked fine but is far from ideal.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you just want to see it in the add referances dialog you only need to install the file into the

C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0

then people can add referances from there and you do not need to worry about the GAC or the registry.