Odd VS 2005 reference warnings. "The referenced component 'System' could not be found."

Does anyone know why (or even better, how to fix) VS 2005 randomly generates warnings like:

"The referenced component 'Some .NET assembly' could not be found."

then when you click on the reference in the Solution Explorer, it magically fixes whatever problem it thought it had

How do I stop these warnings from showing up again

Thanks for any help with this.

dougzhoez



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Odd VS 2005 reference warnings. "The referenced component 'System' could not be found."

  • Evan Mulawski

    Hi, this forum is related to Team System issues, I would recommend you better try on the general Visual Studio 2005 forums

  • Yuva

    Your not alone. I too have seen the same messages.

    As a matter of fact, I just rebooted my computer and opened a solution in VS2005 and saw:

    The referenced component 'System' could not be found.
    The referenced component 'System.Data' could not be found.
    The referenced component 'System.Deployment' could not be found.
    The referenced component 'System.Drawing' could not be found.
    ...

    No idea why it happens. Upon login (startup -> not a service), my PC does start a custom .Net application. Perhaps it's related to that. Seems odd though.

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