How does Visual Studio find Unity/P&P or Office assemblies in its Add References Dialog?

Question

I have read other posts on SO regarding VS's Add References dialog and how it populates assemblies. However, even after looking in Reference Assemblies folder and using the AssemblyFolders registry key for 32-bit and 64-bit, I am still unable to locate some assemblies, such as Unity/P&P and Office assemblies, when searching for them programmatically. Am I missing something?

Answer 1

You can use the Assembly Binding Log Viewer (Fuslogvw.exe) to see where the assemblies that are actually used exists on disk.