“Are you missing an assembly reference?” compile error – Visual Studio

In my case it was a project defined using Target Framework: “.NET Framework 4.0 Client Profile ” that tried to reference dll projects defined using Target Framework: “.NET Framework 4.0”.

Once I changed the project settings to use Target Framework: “.NET Framework 4.0” everything was built nicely.

Right Click the project->Properties->Application->Target Framework

Related Contents:

  1. MSBuild doesn’t copy references (DLL files) if using project dependencies in solution
  2. Break in Class Module vs. Break on Unhandled Errors (VB6 Error Trapping, Options Setting in IDE)
  3. How can I reference a dll in the GAC from Visual Studio?
  4. The located assembly’s manifest definition does not match the assembly reference
  5. Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 provider is not registered
  6. How do I install a NuGet package .nupkg file locally?
  7. Visual Studio: How to break on handled exceptions?
  8. What are the differences between Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio?
  9. How do I diagnose and fix a Visual Studio (for example 2015, 2017) crash?
  10. What are the obj and bin folders (created by Visual Studio) used for?
  11. How do I add an existing directory tree to a project in Visual Studio?
  12. Difference between Rebuild and Clean + Build in Visual Studio
  13. Visual Studio opens the default browser instead of Internet Explorer
  14. Where does Visual Studio 2017 store its config?
  15. How do you count the lines of code in a Visual Studio solution?
  16. Call C standard library function from asm in Visual Studio
  17. Can you force Visual Studio to always run as an Administrator in Windows 8?
  18. How do I set a path in Visual Studio?
  19. How do I set specific environment variables when debugging in Visual Studio?
  20. Will installing Visual Studio 2010 side by side with VS2008 cause problems?
  21. Custom Intellisense Extension
  22. Error: Cannot access file bin/Debug/… because it is being used by another process
  23. Mercurial .hgignore for Visual Studio 2008 projects
  24. How do you default a new class to public when creating it in Visual Studio?
  25. Exclude files from web site publish in Visual Studio
  26. Why is Visual Studio 2010 not able to find/open PDB files?
  27. How to turn off CodeLens-References
  28. “Process with an Id of #### is not running” in Visual Studio
  29. Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component VS2012 when debugging
  30. How do I “Add Existing Item” an entire directory structure in Visual Studio?
  31. Open a file in Visual Studio at a specific line number
  32. Has anyone had success with Visual Studio 6 on Windows 7?
  33. How does CMake specify “Platform Toolset” for a Visual Studio 2015 project?
  34. Adding a guideline to the editor in Visual Studio
  35. Visual Studio – Attach to process shortcut
  36. Visual Studio project type guids
  37. How to use Assembly Binding Redirection to ignore revision and build numbers
  38. Visual Studio 2015 installer hangs during install?
  39. Solution-wide pre-build event?
  40. What does “Register for COM Interop” actually do?
  41. How do I use Qt in my Visual Studio 2015 projects?
  42. How do I change the startup project of a Visual Studio solution via CMake?
  43. Assembly binding redirect does not work
  44. Avoiding “Press any key to continue” when running console application from Visual Studio
  45. Tool to view the contents of the Solution User Options file (.suo)
  46. Unblocking a DLL on a company machine. How?
  47. Open two instances of a file in a single Visual Studio session
  48. What does Visual Studio mean by normalize inconsistent line endings?
  49. CMake: Visual Studio 15 2017 could not find any instance of Visual Studio
  50. Visual Studio – how to find source of heap corruption errors

Leave a Comment