FxCop 1.36: 'Referenced assembly could not be found' for assemblies in GAC

Hi,


I am using FxCop 1.36 and VS2008 SP1.



We have a number of solutions and projects in our organization. Some are placed in the GAC by a post-build event. These projects exist within our solutions and are added as project references to other projects. Projects that reference these GAC assemblies do not create local copies of them, and when we run FxCop on those projects, it fails to resolve those assemblies.



Since the assemblies are installed into the GAC after being built, and they are all set to version 1.0.0.0, I am confident there is not an assembly version problem.



Of course I can tell the project file where the assembly is located, and it's nice that it remembers, but it seems like FxCop should be able to reference assemblies in the GAC directly. Can anyone point me towards what I might be doing wrong? I have created a small test solution that reproduces this problem on multiple computers in my organization; it is available at the following

URL: http://www.crazyfarts.com/codesamples/FxCopGacTest.zip

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A.Rajesh Khanna

Hi,


In FxCop 1.36 go to menu "Project"

Select "Options..."

In the tab "Spellings & Analysis" select "Search Global Assembly Cache for missing references" option

That's all