>>>>Hi all,
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>>>>I have a third party assembly that is installed in the GAC and can be added as a reference to the project from the GAC. However when I try to add the controls to a tab in the toolbox, the assembly does not show up at all. What would cause this and how might I correct it?
>>>>Thanks
>>>>Tim
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>>>Can you browse to this dll (even in GAC) and add it this way?
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>>Browsing to the dll in the GAC does not allow you to add anything from it in the toolbox, I tried. If I browse to it in the installed location outside of the GAC I get an error message that says. "There was an error loading types from assembly 'path shown' Then it lists the assembly name, etc.
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>Looks like you may want to ask this question from this vendor.


Got it figured out Naomi. There is a bug in VS 2008 when trying to add items to the toolbox that reference another dll. Once I added the reference dll to the GAC, I was able to add the items from the referencing dll.
Tim