Could not find dependent assemblies for assembly 'assembly'. The assembly manifest may be corrupt.

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The project system was unable to read an assembly referenced by your project such that the project system is unable to determine the dependencies of the assembly. This error will not prevent the project from building. However, a run-time error is possible.

To correct this error

  • Reinstall Visual Studio (if the assembly came with Visual Studio or the .NET Framework).

    - or -

  • Reinstall the appropriate third-party control.

See Also

Troubleshooting Broken References
NIB How to: Add or Remove References By Using the Add Reference Dialog Box
Assemblies in the Common Language Runtime