Jonathan Yong

I installed .NET Framework 3.0 just a while ago and I realize that the new assemblies in.NET 3.0 does not show in the Reference dialog box when you Add Reference in your VS 2005project.
To enable this, you have to manually add a key into the registry. By default, when you install.NET 3.0, the assemblies is installed into the folder:

C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.0

To enable the 3.0 assemblies to show in the Reference dialog, create a .reg file and put the following into the file. Then double click the .reg file to merge it into the registry.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\AssemblyFoldersFramework 3.0]
@="C:\\Program Files\\Reference Assemblies\\Microsoft\\Framework\\v3.0"

Now restart yout Visual Studio 2005, create a new project or open any existing project,then open Add Reference dialog box in the project, you should now see the new 3.0 assemblies.

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