type universe cannot resolve assembly in Windows Phone 7.1

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21658242

Question

I am facing this error when I add a dll in my Windows Phone 7.1 project

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Solution

The only DLL you can reference in a Windows Phone app are the PCL (Portable Class Library) and those compiled specifically for Silverlight. The DLL you're trying to add targets the desktop version of the .NET Framework, and therefore can't be used.

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