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I wanted to install the nuget package AutoItX.Dotnet after looking at an answer in another stack overflow post

How to read another windows from a different program

I installed it to my Visual Studio project using the NuGet Package manager, I installed it for the current solution I was working on. However when I go to include using AutoIt, it cannot find it. How can I get this package to install properly?

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  • Have you tried `using AutoItX`? – Andy Wynn Jul 26 '22 at 22:35
  • This sounds like an assembly reference issue. I'm not sure that installing the package adds the assembly to the project references. And if not then the using isn't going to work. – SoronelHaetir Jul 26 '22 at 22:40
  • @AndrewWynn I just tried this and it did not fix it – 29belgrade29 Jul 26 '22 at 22:45
  • @SoronelHaetir Is there a way I can install it to work with using? I am trying to follow the answer on the other SO post I put above. Or is there a way to get the AutoIt classes to work another way? – 29belgrade29 Jul 26 '22 at 22:46
  • Go to the "references" node in solution explorer and on the right click menu select "Add Reference" and go from there, finding the assembly the package installed. – SoronelHaetir Jul 26 '22 at 22:49
  • @SoronelHaetir I do not see a references tab, I just see Dependencies – 29belgrade29 Jul 26 '22 at 22:52
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    Which is the problem, this Nuget package is very old and has a dependency on .NET 2.0 assemblies. It cannot work in a project that targets .NET 5+. Use one of the project templates that has ".NET Framework" in its name. – Hans Passant Jul 26 '22 at 22:55
  • @HansPassant Thank you, creating a new project with (.NET Framework) type fixed my issue. – 29belgrade29 Jul 26 '22 at 23:07

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