I have a new project to start and I want to use 1.6, but I don't want to upgrade all my old projects that use 1.5.



So my question is, does a project with 1.5 references behave when you upgrade the development environment to 1.6 or once 1.6 is installed and I want to update a project, does it have to be updated to 1.6?



Thanks.




Keith Chisarik

The Add Reference window looks at the folder that we specified within the AssemblyFolders VS registry key.  Since it's just a folder (the C:\Program Files\Common Files\MicroFour\StrataFrame), we can only have one copy of the file in that folder, so the install overwrites the 1.5 DLLs that are out there with the 1.6 DLLs.  If you want to be able to see the 1.5 DLLs in the Add Reference window, you will need to create a folder somewhere to store them and add the registry key pointing to that folder. 

The key you will need to add is:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\AssemblyFolders\<some name>

The <some name> will need to be replaced with something like "SF 1.5" or "StrataFrame 1.5"; it isn't used, but it helps you identify it if you come back in there later.  You will then need to set the value of the (Default) value within the key to the full path of the folder containing the 1.5 DLLs.

After you do that, the next time you restart VS, you will be able to see both the 1.5 and 1.6 DLLs as selectable items in the Add Reference window.