could not load file or assembly .NET

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I have created a ASP.NET MVC 4 project and included Splicer to render images into a slideshow but when running the application I get the following error.

Could not load file or assembly 'Splicer, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a66524ed949429f4' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)

Any help ?

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do you have any messages related to this exception in your ErrorList? - makim
Are you using Nuget or have you simply downloaded the assembly from the Internet manually ? - Eduard Dumitru
this is downloaded manually. - Millerbean
Check the properties of the reference, check if "Specific Version" is True, if it is try toggling it to False. - Lasse V. Karlsen
I have added the files to the App-Data and then added the references. - Millerbean

1 Answers

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To the following cleansing operations:

  1. Detect the location of the Splicer.dll file
  2. Copy it to a safe location, which won't be deleted by accident and which resides somewhere within your solution so that while copying everything onto some other dev machine you won't have any surprises (using Windows Explorer, Visual Studio doesn't have to know about this action)
  3. In Visual Studio, go to each and every project within your solution
  4. For each project, expand the References folder and if you see a reference to Splicer.dll delete it, and add it again by browsing to the location you chose in step 2
  5. Clean and rebuild your entire solution
  6. Try again