How can I reference a dll in the GAC from Visual Studio?

Question

This assembly is in the GAC: Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.RegisteredServers.dll

How can I add a reference to this assembly in Visual Studio?

I can view the

Answer 1

In VS, right click your project, select "Add Reference...", and you will see all the namespaces that exist in your GAC. Choose Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.RegisteredServers and click OK, and you should be good to go

EDIT:

That is the way you want to do this most of the time. However, after a bit of poking around I found this issue on MS Connect. MS says it is a known deployment issue, and they don't have a work around. The guy says if he copies the dll from the GAC folder and drops it in his bin, it works.