Why is System.Web.Mvc not listed in Add References?

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Timwi picture Timwi · Sep 6, 2010 · Viewed 179k times · Source

Using C#, Visual Studio 2010.

There is a namespace called System.Web.Mvc documented on MSDN. The documentation for all the types in that namespace says that they are in System.Web.Mvc.dll.

However, when I go to Add Reference, “.NET” tab, this assembly is missing from the list. Why?

Answer

jahu picture jahu · Jun 7, 2013

In VS Express 2012 I couldn't find System.Web.Mvc in the "assemblies" tab, but after a bit of searching I found out that I need to look into "assemblies\extensions" tab rather than the default "assemblies\framework" tab.

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