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Asked: 2026-05-20T10:36:47+00:00

Folks, I am having a problem with a c#, multi-project solution in Visual Studio

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Folks,

I am having a problem with a c#, multi-project solution in Visual Studio 2010 SP1.

Here is the Solution Structure:
BNLib – amy personal library of utilities
WidgetClientApp – The asp.net application front end
WidgetConsoleUtilities – A console application
WidgetCore – contains shared interfaces, classes and enums
WidgetMiddleTier – Bussiness logic
WidgetDataLayer – DB access via linq to SQL.

The problem
After adding a reference to the middle tier assembly (WidgetMiddleTier, which contains namespace Widget.MT) to the console application (WidgetConsoleUtilities), I added a using directive to my program.cs page:

using Widget.MT;

I then receive a compiler error on the using directive:

The type or namespace name ‘MT’ does not exist in the namespace ‘Widget’ (are you missing an assembly reference?)

I use this assembly in several other projects in the same solution without a problem.
I use another assembly (WidgetCore, which contains namespace Widget.Core) in the console application without difficulty.

A web application (Widget) uses both these assemblies without issue.

I have tried removeing and readding the namespaces, closing and reopening Visual studio 2010, cleaning the builds, directly including assemblies instead of projects, and nothng has worked.

Any ideas?

Your help will be greatly apperciated!

Best,

Brett

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is the console application using the .NET 4 client profile by chance? If so you cannot reference an assembly that is not in the .NET Framework 4 Client Profile. Instead you must target the .NET Framework 4 – to do this go to your project properties and change the “Target Framework” to “.NET Framework 4”.

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