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Automatically update references?

Jason W

12y1.1kC#

It does not make sense to me that when you put something like "using System.Management;" at the top of your source, Visual Studio doesn't automatically say "Hey, I see you used something that wasn't in your assembly references, would you like to add it?"

Is there not a way to have Visual Studio (in my case 2012) automatically update those?

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Marc12y ago
What I've done is type in an assembly in my block of code and if a reference hasn't already been made, intellisence will mark it with a red squiggle line. If you click on the assembly your trying to reference, you will notice a small box appear in the bottom right corner of the assembly. Click on that box and it would give you two options to reference. This way you don't have to hunt for an assembly to get your code to work, intellisence does it for you.