You can use the Reference Manager dialog box to add and manage references to components that you, Microsoft, or another company developed. If you're developing a Universal Windows app, your project automatically references all of the correct Windows SDK DLLs. If you are developing a. NET application, your project automatically references mscorlib.dll. Some. NET APIs are exposed in components that you have to add manually. References to COM components or custom components have to be added manually. Adding and Removing a Reference Reference Manager opens and lists the available references by group. The project type determines which of the following groups appear: Assemblies, with the Framework and Extensions subgroups. Solution, with the Projects subgroup. Windows, with the Core and Extensions subgroups. You can explore the references in the Windows SDK or extension SDKs by using the Object Browser. Browse, with the Recent subgroup. The Assemblies tab lists all. NET Framework assemblies that are available for referencing. The Assemblies tab doesn’t list any assemblies from the global assembly cache ( GAC) because assemblies in the GAC are part of the run-time environment. If you deploy or copy an application that contains a reference to an assembly that’s registered in the GAC, the assembly won’t be deployed or copied with the application, regardless of the Copy Local setting. For more information, see Project References. When you manually add a reference to any of the Env DTE namespaces ( Env DTE, Env DTE80, Env DTE90, Env DTE90a, or Env DTE100 set the Embed Interop Types property of the reference to False in the Properties window. Setting this property to True can cause build issues because of certain Env DTE properties that can’t be embedded. All desktop projects contain an implicit reference to mscorlib. Visual Basic projects contain an implicit reference to Microsoft. Visual Basic.
On January 13, 2011, Nu Get 1.0 was released with ASP. NET MVC 3. On June 19, 2012, Nu Get 2.0 shipped in the box with all editions of Visual Studio 2012 (including the free ones). That was a little over 2 years ago, and Nu Get’s adoption has been steadily increasing since then. Here are some interesting figures for recent Nu Get usage from nuget.org: Over 260,000,000 total package downloads An average of 1,500,000 package searches per day About 700,000 package downloads per day Well over 250,000 total packages More than 27,000 unique packages The Nu Get is team quite happy with the adoption we’ve seen. But at almost 4 years old, Nu Get is starting to show its age and some even claim that “ Nu Get is broken.” Reasons for Success Before we delve into the ways in which Nu Get can be considered “broken,” let’s take a look at why Nu Get has been successful. We’ll see how some design choices made sense 4 years ago but can be questioned now. The challenge is to find ways to identify which choices should be revisited because circumstances have changed, and which ones need to be left alone to ensure Nu Get’s continued success. It’s Just a Macro When Nu Get was first released, it didn’t matter whether you were on a 1-person team or a 20-person team, because either way, you could start using Nu Get on your project without disrupting the team’s existing workflows. All Nu Get did was automate what you were doing manually: Search the internet for the library you want Download it as a zip Right-click it, hit properties, and unblock the file Unzip it into a solution-level folder for your external dependencies ( I always called mine lib) Look inside the expanded contents for: DLLs that need references added in your project (often involving some guess work) Content files that you should copy into your project Web. Config additions that need to be applied Any README or other documentation listing out.
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