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Lakshmi Narayanan
Lakshmi Narayanan

Reputation: 5342

Add reference deselected in visual studio 2010

I am trying to open a existing project in visual studio 2010 using 

   new->project from existing code

and selecting visual c# as the language. When I run it, I get errors. Later I heard from the person who created the project that I have to add few references, which are present in the references folder in the project itself. It comes in the side window - solution explorer.

However, when I right click on that folder to add as references, that option is 'greyed', or disabled. How Can I correct this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 95

Answers (1)

Steve
Steve

Reputation: 216293

The DLLs named freeglut.dll and glut32.dll are not COM or NET components. You cannot add them as references to your project (You have 4 solutions in your archive, I have choosen the one named fwa_annimate but I think the problem is the same).

The DLL named Tao.FreeGlut.dll needs these files in the same directory where you application run to work. So the easiest way to resolve your problem is to select the two DLLs inside Visual Studio and change the property Copy to Output Directory from Copy Never to Copy Always.

In this way, when you start to debug your app, the VS IDE will copy the two files to the BIN\DEBUG or BIN\RELEASE directory where you app runs when launched inside the VS IDE.

Of course, you need to deploy all these file when you distribute your application.

(By the way, I have no idea what is supposed to do)

Upvotes: 1

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