Is there a way in VS 2010 to add a reference to an assembly that is only in your GAC?

Right clicking on project and clicking "Add Reference..." does not provide a way to 开发者_C百科do this. The .Net tab doesn't look in the GAC and if you browse to C:\windows\assembly you are presented with the actual directory structure of the GAC. Thanks!

No there is no way to do this by navigating with explorer. I do share the frustration here as I've run into the same problem. The way I work around this is to do the following

• Open up CMD
• Navigate through c:\windows\assembly to find the find the assembly in question
• Copy the path to the clip board
• Open up the Add Reference dialog and paste in the path

Or just copy the DLL into a temporary directory and navigate to that through the Add Reference dialog.