Getting assemblies to show in the .NET tab of Add Reference -

When you work with Visual Studio and add a reference to a project, then you present a window with multiple tabs Are; What is required to get the .NET, project, recent, and browse items listed under the .NET listing?

We have items in GAC which we thought they would be listed there, but they are not. We are looking for ways to achieve a more consistent reference path for assemblies in our applications of a very large development team.

You will need to create a registry entry telling Visual Studio that will display the assemblies for the folders. This article explains how to do this:

We do not use GAC anymore because it is a cumbersome process that was not benefiting members of our team. We resolve the path issues continuously using project contexts for our own assemblies. The third party assemblies go into a folder within the solution and we refer to the assemblies in the projects from there. In this way everyone keeps them in the same way without worry.