Error CS1705 which has a higher version than referenced assembly

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I ve been looking into this for a bit now and haven t gotten it resolved  I get the following error message   Compiler Error Message  CS1705  Assembly  My Model  Version 1 1 4422 23773  Culture neutral   PublicKeyToken bfde95ba233094b2  uses   Common  Version 3 3 4273 24368  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken bfde95ba233094b2   which has a higher version than referenced assembly  Common  Version 3 3 4269 17112  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken bfde95ba233094b2   c  WINDOWS assembly GAC MSIL Common 3 3 4269 17112  bfde95ba233094b2 Common dll    Location of symbol related to previous error    The web server is running Server 2003  I went to c  windows assembly and did in fact notice that there were 3 versions of Common dll listed  The highest version listed was 3 3 4269 17112  I copied the dll with version  3 3 4273 24368 into the assembly directory  I then re-compiled and re-deployed my code  probably overkill but oh well   When I opened my browser in  a new session and went to the site URL again I still got the same message   I can use windows explorer and verify the higher-versioned Common dll is now listed as well   What more can I look into to resolve this issue  I don t want to change the reference in my assembly to point to the older version

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My team just ran into this problem within our build environment. The issue was due to a difference in the <HintPath> element of the .csproj file.

Our common assembly had a correct relative path to the directory containing our reference assemblies. The dependent assembly had a path from a former directory structure. The solution successfully compiled on dev machines as the GAC resolved the dependent's reference to the correct version installed in C:\Program Files. The build environment had a legacy install of the assembly (even though it should have had none) that it fell back to and thus the error. Updating the <HintPath> in a text editor corrected the problem.

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3 ideas for you to try    Make sure that all your dlls are compiled against the same version of Common  Check that you have project references in your solution instead of file references  Use binding redirections in your web config   Originally linked version at wayback machine

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In our team we were working on different computers with git  Someone updated a dll and I didn t had it  I just updated my dependencies references and the problem solved

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I got this after adding Episerver Find to our site and installing the corresponding NuGet package for Episerver Find   The fix was easy  update all Episerver related add-ons as well  even if they seem unrelated  CMS  CMS TinyMCE  CMS UI  etc    After updating all possible Episerver add-ons and recompiling  the error went away

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I had this error because  Rebuild  was not really rebuilding   Solution  Close Visual Studio  really go and delete the bin folder  then rebuild  it might work better   Also  sometimes Visual Studio lies about references  so check the HintPathin your  csproj files

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One possible cause is that the second assembly is installed in GAC while the first assembly  with a higher version number  is added to the References of the project  To verify this  double click the assembly in the project references  and check if there is another assembly with the same name in the Object Browser   If that is the case  use the gacutil exe utility to uninstall the second assembly from the GAC  For example  if these are 64-bit assemblies   C  Program Files Microsoft SDKs Windows v6 0A Bin x64 gacutil exe -u  lt assembly name gt

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I had the same issue with UnitTestingProject  where in the MainProject I was using  System Web Mvc  Version 3 0 0 0  and in UnitTestingProject I was using  System Web Mvc  Version 3 0 0 1   Change the following in the  lt Reference Include  System Web Mvc  Version 3 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31bf3856ad364e35  processorArchitecture MSIL  gt         lt HintPath gt    packages Microsoft AspNet Mvc 3 0 50813 1 lib net40 System Web Mvc dll lt  HintPath gt       lt  Reference gt

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The issue is seen if the nuget packages vary in multiple projects within the solution   You can fix this by updating nuget packages to a common version with all of the PROJECTS in the SOLUTION

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In my scenario  I edited the  csproj file for my dotnetCore app   I noticed that the TargetFramework tag had a value of netcoreapp2 1 and the RuntimeFrameworkVersion tag a value of 2 0 0  So I changed the RuntimeFrameworkVersion to 2 1 0  saved  restarted VS and rebuilt and then it resolved the errors   Hope this will help you      Good Luck   Sugeshan

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In your project find references System Web Mvc check the version   After that right click references -  assemblies and search system web mvc and setup it    The problem causes the different versions of these assemblies    Edit   Than select manage NuGet packages and install the updates  if you have multiple projects install updates to  them also    Important update is Microsoft AspNet Mvc  and Microsoft Net Compilers don t forget it

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If you re using NuGet it is worth going to  Manage NuGet Packages For Solution   finding the package which is causing issues and hitting update  It should then bring all of the packages up to the latest version and resolve the problem       Worth a shot as it s a quick and easy

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My problem was that I had 2 projects referencing 2 different copies of the same dll which had different versions  I fixed it by removing them both and making sure they were referencing the same dll file

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Go to Reference and add a new reference of your dll file which is causing the problem and make sure that all your dlls are compiled against the same version  It works for me I hope it works for you also

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Had a similar problem  My issue was that I had several projects within the same solution that each were referencing a specific version of a DLL but different versions  The solution was to set  Specific Version  to false in the all of the properties of all of the references

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I know this was asked quite a while ago  after trying out some of the above steps  What helped me were the following steps and this article   I located the reference and changed the PublicKeyToken from the one being referenced to the older one    I hope this helps too

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Handmade dll s collection folder If you solution has a garbage folder for dll-files from different libraries lib  source  libs  etc  You can get this trouble if you ll open your solution  for a firs time  in Visual Studio  And your dll s collecting folder is missed for somehow or a concrete dll-file is missed   Visual Studio will try silently to substitute dll s reference for something on its own  If VS will succeed then a new reference will be persistent for your local solution  Not for other clones checkouts   I e  your  lt HintPath gt  will be ignored and you project file   csproj  will not be changed  As an example of me   lt Reference Include  DocumentFormat OpenXml  Version 2 0 5022 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 31bf3856ad364e35  processorArchitecture MSIL  gt     lt SpecificVersion gt False lt  SpecificVersion gt     lt HintPath gt          lib DocumentFormat OpenXml dll lt  HintPath gt   lt  Reference gt    The DocumentFormat OpenXml will be referenced from C  Program Files  x86  Open XML SDK V2 5 lib not from a solution    lib folder   fast Workaround   check and restore you dll s collecting folder from Solution Explorer do Unload Project  then Reload Project    right Workaround is to migrate to NuGet package manager

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I had a similar problem  I had created a DLL  i e   A dll  which referenced other DLL  i e   B dll   I created an application C exe and referenced DLLs A dll and B dll   Solution  - On removing the reference of B dll from c exe I was able to fix the issue   Hope this helps

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The references in a website project are stored in its web config file  Update the reference there to fix the error   I spent some time looking at all the references in my solution before realizing that I had forgotten about the references in the web config file

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for SharePoint  make sure that under your root folder you don t have a  bin  folder with your DLL s  if so just delete it   and change  Copy Local  to false in VS

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I had same error  I fixed the error after installing Microsoft AspNetCore ALL into test project

[.net] Error CS1705: "which has a higher version than referenced assembly"

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