Why does the error occur in WinForms Grid Control?

The error “type or namespace name ‘Syncfusion’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)” occurs due to the following reasons in WinForms Gridcontrol: 

1. Referring the application’s reference DLLs like the DLL version as Target Framework version. 

• TargetFramework version is lower than Syncfusion DLL’s version 

Example: 

TargetFramwork version: 3.5 

Syncfusion Installed framework version: 4.6

2. Creating application under one .NET Framework. 

• You can use multiple projects for your application. In every application, referred Syncfusion DLLs version should be the same. 

3. The GAC assemblies are removed or reference path differs from the Target Framework. 

• Trying to refer the higher version DLLs in lower framework version projects.

4. Mismatching assemblies of GAC assemblies and user defined reference path assemblies. 

• You can see this by opening your project in notepad or unloading and editing your project in Visual Studio. Syncfusion assemblies should not be as illustrated in the following screenshot.
• So, remove the hint path and assembly settings like as below illustrated screenshot

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about why does the error occur in WinForms Grid Control.

You can refer to our WinForms GridControl feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations. You can also explore our WinForms GridControl documentation to understand how to create and manipulate data.

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