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Why is System.Web.Mvc not listead in Add References?

Answer 1

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I believe you'll find the MVC assembly is referenced in the web.config file, not in the project itself.

Something like this:

<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0">
  <assemblies>
    <add assembly="System.Web.Abstractions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
    <add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
    <add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
  </assemblies>
</compilation>

To respond to your comment;

The best answer I can give is from here:

The add element adds an assembly reference to use during compilation of a dynamic resource. ASP.NET automatically links this assembly to the resource when compiling each code module.

Basiclife 2010-09-06 00:16:52

OK, adding that XML to the Web.config works, but it doesn’t answer the question.

Timwi 2010-09-06 00:33:16

"works" as in it provides the intellisense? I've edited my answer

Basiclife 2010-09-06 01:09:16

Answer 2

A:

"OK, adding that XML to the Web.config works, but it doesn’t answer the question"

It should be there. By default the add references list seems to be ordered, but its not the case. Hit the name header and look again.

eglasius 2010-09-06 10:17:58

I don’t often say “this assembly is missing from the list” unless I’m sure of it.

Timwi 2010-09-06 13:27:16

@Timwi I figured, but given the other answer, that there is v. little chance that its not there with vs 2010 installed and that in my case I always have found what I need in the references list without ever hitting the name header I had to say it ... in fact, I now know why I never had to before and in vs 2010 I do - see the first comment: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/29/add-reference-dialog-improvements-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx#7242495

eglasius 2010-09-06 16:06:30

So are you saying that clicking the Name header sorts things for you? Does nothing here on my machine...

romkyns 2010-09-08 08:37:06

@romkyns it only works after all assemblies in the list have loaded.

eglasius 2010-09-08 15:32:56

Answer 3

A:

The desired assembly has appeared in the list now.

I can only speculate what caused it to appear, but I suspect it is the fact that I went File → New → Project → ASP.NET Web Application, which I had never done before. It is possible that this caused some sort of late initialisation to happen and the list to be populated with additional assemblies for Web development.

Timwi 2010-09-06 13:29:50

@Timwi it was always surely always there, its ok :P ... see the comment I added to my answer, in the link it says: "The issue with the .net tab, is while the async is happening and its being refreshed, its not sorting in alphabetical order..." ... which is a new behavior to vs 2010, I never realized that until I saw your question.

eglasius 2010-09-06 16:10:55

@egl I just tested on my machine here (VS2010) and it's not in the list at all. I do get different sets of assemblies depending on Target Framework, but this one is never there.

romkyns 2010-09-07 12:18:00

@romkyns try targeting .net 4, and doing what I mentioned in my answer. Also make sure to give it enough time to load, since it does an async load.

eglasius 2010-09-07 17:01:36

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