dotnet / dotnet/project-system
Legacy designers expect DTAR to not find assemblies not referenced by the project
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Description
Promoting the following comment in DesignTimeAssemblyResolution code to a work item:
```
internal partial class DesignTimeAssemblyResolution : IVsDesignTimeAssemblyResolution, IDisposable
{
// This implementation will work for .NET Core based projects, but we might run into unexpected behavior when bringing up legacy projects where designers/components
// expect to ask for/use types that are not currently referenced by the project. We should revisit at that time.
```
Winforms implementation of TypeResolutionService expects that DTAR resolves only assemblies that are referenced by the project in the drag-and-drop from the toolbox scenario.
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