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F# Interactive assembly reference error
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Hi,

#r "C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework\v3.0\windowsbase.dll";;

Running the above command in F# Interactive Console gives me the following error.

stdin(1,2): error FS2301: 'C:\Program Files\Reference Assemblies\Microsoft\Framework 3.0\windowsbase.dll' is not a valid assembly name

I observed that \v has been replaced with a Unicode character which cannot be pasted here.

Could someone please explain me the reason behind and the solution for it?

Thanks,

Nyi Nyi

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By default, in string literals, the backslash is an escape character. So e.g. "\n" is a newline character. There are two common ways to put an actual backslash in a string. One is to escape it with another backslash. The other is to put an @ at the front of the string: @"\n" which makes it a "verbatim string" that turns off the escaping. That's what you want here.

See e.g. this document

[link:msdn.microsoft.com]

for the description of 'verbatim strings' in C# - the F# rules are the same.

By on 3/14/2010 11:54 AM ()

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