Add a third-party library to the Visual Studio project

Add a third-party .NET library.

Prerequisites

Set Visual Studio as the default external code editor. See Set the default code editor.

To Add a third-party library to the Visual Studio project

Copy the .NET assembly for the library to the

ProjectFiles/NetSolution

project folder.

From the main toolbar, select

Open .NET Solution

The default external code editor opens.

TIP: Rockwell Automation recommends using Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 or Microsoft Visual Studio Code as the default code editor. Some development assistance features may not be available when using a different code editor.

Update the reference by selecting the assembly from 1.

For more information, see Manage references in a project - Visual Studio (Windows) | Microsoft Learn.

Manage third-party .NET libraries

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