Text Template file can't find System.Core.dll

Question

I have a text template file that is designed to read through my database and build models from there, which has been working perfectly for 2 years, but all of a sudden today it cannot find System.Core.dll unless I explicitly state out the location.

This works:

<#@ template language="C#v3.5" #>
<#@ assembly name="C:\Program Files (x86)\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\.NETFramework\v4.0\System.Core.dll" #>
<#@ assembly name="System.Xml" #>
<#@ assembly name="System.Data" #>
<#@ assembly name="Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo" #>
<#@ assembly name="Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo" #>
<#@ assembly name="Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc" #>

This doesn't work:

<#@ template language="C#v3.5" #>
<#@ assembly name="System.Core.dll" #>
<#@ assembly name="System.Xml" #>
<#@ assembly name="System.Data" #>
<#@ assembly name="Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo" #>
<#@ assembly name="Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo" #>
<#@ assembly name="Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc" #>

Obviously I don't want to have the path explictly stated as this may need to be different on a different developers machine. The only change that has been made to my system lately is that I ran the last month of Windows Updates (Windows 7).

Answer 1

I just had to switch to a new machine and this is working just fine again. I don't know exactly what was happening, but the developer that had the machine that I was using before I did had gigs of bloat ware on it that may have caused the path not to be found.

Answer 2

You need to have the line

<#@ assembly name="System.Core" #>

instead of

<#@ assembly name="System.Core.dll" #>