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How to reference a dll in a VS project?
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What arcane spells I must curse to reference some assemblies in a

Visual Studio project? I have tried in the Build options the line "-r

Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.dll -r

Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Caching.dll" with no success

although I did strong name it so they should be found.

But the little test code:

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module test

open System


open System.Windows.Forms


open Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common

let source = ConfigurationSourceFactory.Create()

file1.fs(10,13): error: FS0039: The namespace or module 'ConfigurationSourceFactory' is not defined.

What did I overlook?

Yours,

Alois Kraus

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You need to give the location too. You can do this using -I "c:\entlibdir" (the -I switch means include directory), or -r "c:\entlibdir\Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.dll". You can use a relative path too, this should be from the directory of the project.

You can also write "#r "c:\entlibdir\Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common.dll"" directly in your code.

There can be a problem that intelisense doesn't pick up the reference so VS.NET can give intelisense errors, even when it will compile. I think the later method is most reliable for ensuring this doesn't happen.

By on 5/29/2006 10:55 PM ()

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