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I have read the following webpage: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee817675.aspx and I am interested in the section: 'Use File References Only Where Necessary'

The section seems to suggest that you can add a reference to a DLL on a server. I have version 11 of Oracle.DataAccess on my development PC and version 10 on the live server. It is a pain to deploy the application.

The web page says that a project file should contain a 'References' node, but when I right click on a project file and open with TextPad, there is only an ItemGroup (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/646dk05y%28v=vs.90%29.aspx) node. Therefore I have two questions:

1) Where can I find the References node as stated on the webpage?
2) Is it possible to reference an assembly using the UAC path instead of a local path?
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Referenced projects is placed in ItemGroup starting from MSBuild 2.0 first link is outdated it from Visual Studion .NET times .NET 1.0/1.1.

    <!-- ... -->
    <Reference Include="System" />
    <!-- ... -->

For the second question I think yes if you mean UNC path.

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Thanks. I will test this later on today. –  w0051977 Nov 11 '12 at 14:56
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