Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate vs. Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPack

c# winforms powerpack
Jan3Sobieski picture Jan3Sobieski · Oct 28, 2013 · Viewed 8.4k times · Source

I have solution in Windows Forms C# and Visual Studio 2013 from the university (dreamspark). When I try to run my solution, I've get an error:

Error 2 The type or namespace name 'PowerPacks' does not exist in the namespace 'Microsoft.VisualBasic' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

I cannot find the reference in reference manager:

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How do I repair that?

Answer

Michael picture Michael · Jun 17, 2014

Despite the MSDN documentation to the contrary, this seems not to be included in Visual Studio 2013.

But you can still install it from here. This is the latest version and works in Visual Studio 2017 as well.

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