Quote Originally Posted by jmcilhinney
How exactly can you do that? There is no reference to that assembly listed in the Solution Explorer. I can add a reference to that assembly to a C# project if I want and see it listed, but I cannot remove one from a VB.NET project, or at least not the conventional way.
You're not looking in the right place thats why. Its in the Project Properties dialog. Its under "imports" or something and there is a list of namespaces that are loaded regardless of whats in the solution explorer references list.