the type or namespace “TextFieldParser” could not be found

Question

I am trying to use TextfieldParser that was found within Reading CSV files using C#. I am using VS 2010 and doing this in C#.

I keep on getting \"the type or namesp

Answer 1

Application references are not available to uncompiled files in your application (aspx, ashx). The reference would need added to the web.config or else the code would need moved to a compiled file (cs/vb).