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Microsoft StreamInsight: “The type or namespace name ComplexEventProcessing does not exist in the namespace Microsoft”

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error streaminsight complex event processing version 21In this blog post, I’ll document how I solved the error “The type or namespace name ComplexEventProcessing does not exist in the namespace Microsoft”. Here are the steps:

1. I browsed through other errors/warnings as well – I was also missing assemblies from Reactive Extensions and so I added them first.

2. For my scenario, I had installed StreamInsight 2.0 successfully on my machine but I downloaded the sample that needed assemblies from StreamInsight 2.1 – notice the version mismatch here? That was the problem!

3. One of the message said “Could not locate assembly Microsoft.ComplexEventProcessing version = 21.0.0.0” – notice the version = 21.0.0.0 – it suggested that I needed the assemblies from StreamInsight 2.1

4. So I downloaded “Microsoft® SQL Server® StreamInsight 2.1” and installed it. And it worked!

5. FYI: I found the Microsoft.ComplexEventProcessing assembly on my machine at C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETassemblyGAC_MSILMicrosoft.ComplexEventProcessing*

That’s about it for this post. I hope it helps someone who is having issues with finding the assembly with the right version number to get started working with StreamInsight.