Could not load file or assembly System.EnterpriseServices

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Published on 2009-05-29T09:13:26Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 5:50 UTC
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I'm trying to read up on asp.net mvc, I have never used asp.net before but are familiar with regular c# development.

Freshly installed, fully patched Windows XP Home.
Freshly installed updated to SP1 Visual Studio 2008 Pro.

Started a new project, selected "ASP.NET MVC Web Application", target framework is 3.5

I hit F5 and I get:
"Could not load file or assembly System.EnterpriseServices"

Exact wording in swedish:

[FileNotFoundException: Det går inte att hitta filen. (Undantag från HRESULT: 0x80070002)]
[FileNotFoundException: Det går inte att läsa in filen eller sammansättningen System.EnterpriseServices, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a eller ett av dess beroenden. Det går inte att hitta filen.]

Adding a reference to System.EnterpriseServices in my project did not work.
A quick google suggested I copy this file Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/System.EnterpriseServices.dll into %WINDOWS%/assembly but that did not work either.

Any suggestions?

Found the answer, I added it to the GAC with gacutil.

C:\WINDOWS>"C:\Program\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\gacutil.exe" /i Microsoft.NET/Framework/v2.0.50727/System.EnterpriseServices.dll

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