An example of activation of the Reference Manager

This document describes an example of activation of the Reference Manager, occurring when you load an assembly and one of its components is not found because it has been renamed.

1  When you open the assembly file including one or more components that the program is unable to find in the folder specified in the X-Reference(s) originally saved with the assembly, the Reference Manager is automatically activated and the Fix Missing References dialog box is displayed.

The controls in this dialog box enable you to select the new location of the referenced file. You can click either the    (Browse) or OK buttons. The Cancel button quits the dialog box. The Help button displays the Online Help. The Recurse folders option enables you to specify if the provided folder must be scan recursively or not.

If you click the Browse button, the Browse for Folder dialog box is displayed, from which you can specify the new location of the component file. Note, however, that this step is optional and only enables you to specify the folder in which the program will look for the reference file. You will still be prompted to select the file name to substitute for the missing reference file.
2 After you specify the new folder, or if you simply click OK in the Fix Missing References dialog box, the New Reference dialog box is displayed, in which you specify the name of the component file.

If you already specified the folder, the dialog box may contain the complete path and file name, in which case you can click OK. Otherwise, click the Browse button to access the file system. The Ignore button enables you to skip the current reference, therefore it won't be loaded in the assembly. Note that if, for a lost reference, no new reference can be proposed, the OK and the OK to All buttons are not enabled, until you select the new reference either by means of the Browse button or typing the reference file path. Also note that the New Reference dialog box will be displayed any time the program is unable to load a reference. If you click the OK to All button, all the new references that can be retrieved by the program will be automatically accepted and the dialog box will appear only for the ones that cannot be retrieved in the specified folder.

When you click the Browse button, a standard Windows file dialog box is displayed from which you can select the reference file.
3 Once you have specified the file name and closed this file dialog box, click OK or OK to All to close the New Reference dialog box. Now, the Confirm Changes dialog box is displayed, which lists the files that will be changed. In this example, both the assembly file and other component files will be changed.

Click OK to proceed. The program immediately updates the references and loads the assembly file.

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