Getting assemblies to show in the .NET tab of Add Reference

Question

When working with Visual Studio and adding a reference to a project you are presented a window with multiple tabs; .NET, Project, Recent, and Browse. What is needed to get

Answer 1

This is probably a VFAQ, even though I'm quite new here. The basic concept here is that the list of assemblies is loaded based on a setting in the Registry.

All you need to do is to add a registry subkey which points to the location of the assembly under the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders\

If MyAssemblyFolder is the name of your folder where your Assembly to be added resides, create a subkey with any name and within it, add a String key with the complete path to your MyAssemblyFolder.