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Add Project Reference

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I just spent 10 very frustrating minutes when trying to add an Assembly Reference to my existing .Net Core Project.

There is a context menu item item called 'Add Project Reference', no, I don't want to add a reference to another project in my solution - I want to add a reference to a third-party assembly.

It turned out that 'Add Project Reference' is a very bad name, it should be called 'Add Reference', since it does allow you to add a reference to either another project in your solution or a third party assembly.

:-( - naming my friends - naming !!!

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