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If you dont care that the assembly is actually in the GAC, but just loadable on the machine (from the appdomain) you can just use LoadAssembly with the assemblies name (strong, common, full, etc). If the assembly can be loaded by Fusion it will be and then you will know it exists.
It is located in %windir%\assembly (for example, C:\WINDOWS\assembly) and it is a shared repository of libraries.
Visual Studio never lists all items in the GAC. It only lists items that are noted in a particular registry key.
Please see this knowledge base article for more info: How to display an assembly in the "Add Reference" dialog box
You can always add a reference to the assembly by browsing to it on disk.
I've created a tool which is completely free, that will help you to achieve your goal. Muse VSReferences will allow you to add a Global Assembly Cache reference to the project from Add GAC Reference menu item.
The Visual Studio Add Reference dialog is independent of the GAC: the folders it looks in for assemblies is actually controlled by the AssemblyFolders registry key. Not everything that appears in the GAC appears in Add Reference (and conversely not everything in Add Reference is in the GAC).
To add references to the Rhino Mocks DLLs, just go to the Browse tab, navigate to the location where you installed/unzipped/built Rhino Mocks, and select the DLL(s) from there.
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