Assembly installed into the GAC not showing up in Visual Studio

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Published on 2010-01-01T01:49:49Z Indexed on 2010/04/29 9:37 UTC
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This sounds related to this question, but they aren't the same thing. That question had no assemblies showing up. Mine has everything except the specific one I installed.

I'm hoping someone has a solution to this... am I doing something wrong? Or did I find some bug in VS?

I am using Visual Studio 2010 Professional Beta 2 on Windows 7 Ultimate. I just downloaded Rhino Mocks and decided to install it into the GAC using the command-line utility GACUTIL. I then rebooted.

Here you can see the assembly in my GAC (click to enlarge):

And here is the list of assemblies available to me in Visual Studio:

Here is the command prompt where I installed it, and then confirmed it:

C:\Users\jason\Downloads>gacutil -i Rhino.Mocks.dll
Microsoft (R) .NET Global Assembly Cache Utility.  Version 4.0.21006.1
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Assembly successfully added to the cache

C:\Users\jason\Downloads>gacutil /l |grep -i rhino
Rhino.Mocks, Version=3.6.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=0b3305902db7183f, processorArchitecture=MSIL

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