Could not load file or assembly Newtonsoft Json Version 4 5 0 0 Culture neutral PublicKeyToken 30ad4fe6b2a6aeed

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I am getting the Error      System IO FileLoadException   Could not load file or assembly    Newtonsoft Json  Version 4 5 0 0  Culture neutral    PublicKeyToken 30ad4fe6b2a6aeed  or one of its dependencies  The   located assembly s manifest definition does not match the assembly   reference   Exception from HRESULT  0x80131040    for my CI build  Solution which I tried   lt dependentAssembly gt       lt assemblyIdentity name  Newtonsoft Json  publicKeyToken  30ad4fe6b2a6aeed          culture  neutral    gt       lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  0 0 0 0-6 0 0 0  newVersion  6 0 0 0    gt   lt  dependentAssembly gt    It also did not work

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I fixed the problem adding this binding redirect to my .config file:

<runtime>
    . . . 
    <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
        <dependentAssembly>
            <assemblyIdentity name="Newtonsoft.Json" publicKeyToken="30ad4fe6b2a6aeed"
                culture="neutral" />
            <bindingRedirect oldVersion="4.5.0.0" newVersion="6.0.0.0" />
        </dependentAssembly>
    </assemblyBinding>
</runtime>

The error message complains about not finding version 4.5.0.0, the current version of Newtonsoft.Json is 6.0.0.0 so the redirect should go from 4.5 to 6.0, not viceversa

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Another insidious problem is that it appears that binding redirects can just silently fail if the  element has an incorrect configuration on any other dependentAssembly elements   Ensure that you only have one  element under each  element   In some instances  VS generates this      lt dependentAssembly gt       lt assemblyIdentity          lt assemblyIdentity        lt  dependentAssembly gt    Instead of      lt dependentAssembly gt       lt assemblyIdentity        lt  dependentAssembly gt     lt dependentAssembly gt       lt assemblyIdentity        lt  dependentAssembly gt    Took me a long time to realise this was the problem

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I made the mistake of adding a NewtonSoft  dll file for  Net 4 5   My main project was 4 5  but when I added an extra project to my solution  it strangely added it as a  Net 2 0 project     and when I attempted to use NewtonSoft s 4 5 dll with this  I got this  Newtonsoft Json couldn t be found  error   The solution  of course  was to change this new project from  Net 2 0 to 4 5

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In my case  after downloading the assembly and adding the reference to the project  I solved this by  unblocking  the DLL before adding the reference to the project   Using Windows explorer  browse to the DLL location  right-click on the DLL and then select  properties    You ll find an  unblock  button on one of the tabs and then you can add the reference and the assembly will load correctly

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Also  in a CI environment with NuGet restore  be sure that you don t have partial folders checked into source control  By default  when adding folders to source control  it will automatically exclude assemblies  Besides  this defeats the whole purpose of restoring nuget packages upon build  Either checking assemblies  or not checking in any packages folders will get a successful build  but the better practice is to not check nuget packages into source control

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Below section add in to your web config   lt runtime gt       lt assemblyBinding xmlns  urn schemas-microsoft-com asm v1  gt          lt dependentAssembly gt              lt assemblyIdentity name  Newtonsoft Json                 publicKeyToken  30AD4FE6B2A6AEED  culture  neutral   gt              lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  0 0 0 0-6 0 0 0  newVersion  6 0 0 0   gt          lt  dependentAssembly gt       lt  assemblyBinding gt   lt  runtime gt

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If error disappears locally and still appears on server  the solution that works with me is to delete bin folder and packages config and web config and reupload these files

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I was writing a WebApi REST service client  so for me this error was caused by adding References to the System Net Http and System Net Http Formatting assemblies manually via Add Reference  when I should have added the Microsoft AspNet WebApi Client package via NuGet  See also this answer to another question

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I have got the same type of problem  And I also solved it just doing the following  Go to TOOLS   NuGet Package Manager and Select Package Manager Console  Finally  execute the following two commands      uninstall-package newtonsoft json -force install-package newtonsoft json

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I had the same issue and I got the exception when I was trying to create MassTransit queues    Exception  System TypeInitializationException  The type initializer for  MassTransit Serialization JsonMessageSerializer  threw an exception  --- gt  System IO FileLoadException  Could not load file or assembly  Newtonsoft Json  Version 12 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 30ad4fe6b2a6aeed  or one of its dependencies  The located assembly s manifest definition does not match the assembly reference   Exception from HRESULT  0x80131040     Solution that worked for me  after spending couple of days reverting several commits     We had a windows service solution that has  Service project and  XUnitTests project  Both of them were using a common nuget that has dependency on Newtonsoft Json dll  There was no explicit reference to Newtonsoft Json nuget package in both projects  but we were using  using Newtonsoft Json   namespace in our classes   so the common nuget was using version 9 of Newtonsoft Json by default   As soon as I installed the Newtonsoft Json nuget in both  Service and  XUnitTests projects  the common nuget package started using the latest v12 Newtonsoft and that fixed my issue     Just posting it in here if it saves anyone their valuable time

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For a simplest solution you can set your project file to automatically generate binding redirects for you   lt PropertyGroup gt        lt AutoGenerateBindingRedirects gt true lt  AutoGenerateBindingRedirects gt   lt  PropertyGroup gt   https   docs microsoft com en-us dotnet framework configure-apps how-to-enable-and-disable-automatic-binding-redirection

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I ve spend couple of days trying to resolve this frustrating issue  I ve tried pretty much everything that can be found on the web  Finally I found that this error could be caused  like in my case  by the different target  Net project versions  4 5 and 4 5 1  in one solution  The steps bellow fixed it for me    Double check the  Net version of every project that s in your solution  Just right click on project and go to Properties       If possible set the same  Net version for all projects  If not at least try to change the Startup project one  for me this was the one causing the issues   Remove all Newtonsoft Json packs from the solution   uninstall-package newtonsoft json -force Update all Newtonsoft Json versions in all packages config files  like so        lt package id  Newtonsoft Json  version  7 0 1  targetFramework  net451    gt  Reinstall Newtonsoft Json from  Package Manager Console  with   install-package newtonsoft json Rebuild the solution    Optional  7  If you changed the Startup project  return it again

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I had no luck with any of the solutions presented here  uninstalling  reinstalling  deleting references  creating bindingRedirects etc    I had to go back to an old version of Newtonsoft   Version 5 0 6 had been working before  so I tried that one   I had to enter these two commands in the Package Console   uninstall-package newtonsoft json -force  install-package newtonsoft json -version  5 0 6   The -force option in the first command is required to force the uninstall   Dependencies with other assemblies prevent the uninstall without it

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updating web config with the following assembly binding resolved the issue   lt runtime gt       lt assemblyBinding xmlns  urn schemas-microsoft-com asm v1  gt              lt dependentAssembly gt           lt assemblyIdentity name  Newtonsoft Json  publicKeyToken  30ad4fe6b2a6aeed                  culture  neutral    gt           lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  4 5 0 0  newVersion  6 0 0 0    gt         lt  dependentAssembly gt       lt  assemblyBinding gt     lt  runtime gt

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Close solution   Open packages config and   csproj with text editor and delete any line have Newtonsoft Json  Ex   lt Reference Include  Newtonsoft Json Version 9 0 0 0 Culture neutral PublicKeyToken 30ad4fe6b2a6aeed  processorArchitecture MSIL  gt         lt HintPath gt    packages Newtonsoft Json 9 0 1 lib net40 Newtonsoft Json dll lt  HintPath gt         lt Private gt True lt  Private gt       lt  Reference gt   Or  lt package id  Newtonsoft Json  version  9 0 1  targetFramework  net40    gt   Open solution again and re-install Newtonsoft Json by Install-Package Newtonsoft Json  It work for me

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Remove the Newtonsoft Json assembly from the project reference and add it again  You probably deleted or replaced the dll by accident

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We had the exact same issue that you mentioned  We re using nunit to run tests through CI  and we have nunit running a file called tests nunit  which describe a list of test dll fixtures to run    Each test fixture had their own config file  but when run through the  tests nunit  file the binding redirects seem to be ignored  The solution was to add the binding redirects to a new config file   tests config  that was beside the  tests nunit  file

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I had the exact same problem with version 7 0 0 0  and the lib causing my problem was Microsoft Rest ClientRuntime which somehow was referring to the wrong version  6 0 0 0  of Newtonsoft json  despite the right dependency management in nugget  the right version of newtonsoft json  7 0 0 0  was installed    I solved this by applying the redirection above from 6 0 0 0 to 7 0 0 0  from Kadir Can  in the config file    lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  0 0 0 0-6 0 0 0  newVersion  7 0 0 0    gt    ----  After a few days without changing anything it came up again with the same error  I installed version 6 0 0 0 n updated it to 7 0 0 0 it works fine now

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To everyone having problems with Newtonsoft Json v4 5 version try using this in web config or app config    lt runtime gt       lt assemblyBinding xmlns  urn schemas-microsoft-com asm v1  gt          lt dependentAssembly gt              lt assemblyIdentity name  Newtonsoft Json                 publicKeyToken  30AD4FE6B2A6AEED  culture  neutral   gt              lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  0 0 0 0-6 0 0 0  newVersion  6 0 0 0   gt          lt  dependentAssembly gt       lt  assemblyBinding gt   lt  runtime gt    IMPORTANT  Check that the configuration tag of your config file has no namespace attribute  as suggested in https   stackoverflow com a 12011221 150370    Otherwise  assemblyBinding tags will be ignored

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In my case  the main project was still referencing an old version of Newtonsoft Json which didn t exists in the project any more  shown by a yellow exclamation mark   Removing the reference solved the problem  no bindingRedirect was necessary

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One more advice to the open topic  The error appears after running the  Analyze   something was changed in the project settings  The problem was that in   Project   Settings   Build   Platform target  appeared  Any CPU    Setting back to x86  or maybe x64 in your case  solved the issue

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I was facing the same error and struggled with it for hours  I had a web API project which is using Newtonsoft json and another UnitTest project for the web API project  The unit test project also needed the Newtonsoft json reference  But on adding the link I was getting the above exception   I finally resolved it by adding the below code snippet in the app config of the unit test project    lt dependentAssembly gt       lt assemblyIdentity name  Newtonsoft Json  publicKeyToken  30AD4FE6B2A6AEED  culture  neutral    gt       lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  0 0 0 0-6 0 0 0  newVersion  6 0 0 0    gt   lt  dependentAssembly gt

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Nothing from above helped me  but what actually fixed it is the following    Remove all dependency bindings in app config  from all app config files in the solution  Execute the following command from  Package Manager Console    Get-Project -All   Add-BindingRedirect   Rebuild   Reference  http   blog myget org post 2014 11 27 Could-not-load-file-or-assembly-NuGet-Assembly-Redirects aspx

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if you using multiple project in same solution  and library of the one other  check is all projects has same version of Newtonsoft Json

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lt runtime gt   lt assemblyBinding xmlns  urn schemas-microsoft-com asm v1  gt     lt dependentAssembly gt       lt assemblyIdentity name  Newtonsoft Json          publicKeyToken  30AD4FE6B2A6AEED  culture  neutral   gt       lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  0 0 0 0-6 0 0 0  newVersion  7 0 0 0   gt     lt  dependentAssembly gt   lt  assemblyBinding gt      Works for me     just put the version you are using in newVersion i e newVersion  7 0 0 0

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Just check the version of Newtonsoft Json Newtonsoft properties  Then you need to add that version in your web config  in my case 8 0 0 0  Web config

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The problem for me was a depreciated version of Newtonsoft Json  Re-installing didn t help   In Visual Studio  go to Tools- Manage NuGet Packages  Select Updates  Search for Newtonsoft  Click Update to install the latest version

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Apart from many answers here I found something hence adding it First point Make sure the dll is not referenced from GAC Apart from this   While adding changing dll of Newtonsoft Json  Sometimes   csproj of the project doesnt get changed or the changed version of json dll will not be reflected in csproj of the solution   So Open the project in notepad   and search Newtonsoft Json and rename the JSON from old version to New version explicitly Now after tabbing back to VS  the solution project will reload with needed version Newtonsoft JSON dll

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I was getting same error and by adding below code error resolved on production  Answer is too late but might help someone       lt runtime gt           lt assemblyBinding xmlns  quot urn schemas-microsoft-com asm v1 quot  gt               lt dependentAssembly gt                   lt assemblyIdentity name  quot Newtonsoft Json quot  publicKeyToken  quot 30ad4fe6b2a6aeed quot  culture  quot neutral quot    gt                   lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  quot 0 0 0 0-12 0 0 0 quot  newVersion  quot 12 0 0 0 quot    gt               lt  dependentAssembly gt           lt  assemblyBinding gt       lt  runtime gt

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This is very old  seems still many people having issues with the same thing  So I would like to share my experience that it might help someone   I had the same issue in two places  In one project users 6 0 4 0 and in different project use 4 5 0 0    1- This work for me  In bin folder I have 6 0 0 0 Newtonsoft Json dll and symbolic link to 4 5 0 0 dlls   lt runtime gt   lt assemblyBinding xmlns  urn schemas-microsoft-com asm v1  gt   lt dependentAssembly gt   lt probing privatePath  bin 4 5dlls-path     gt   lt assemblyIdentity name  Newtonsoft Json  publicKeyToken  30ad4fe6b2a6aeed   culture  neutral    gt   lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  0 0 0 0-6 0 0 0  newVersion  6 0 0 0    gt   lt  dependentAssembly gt   lt  assemblyBinding gt   lt  runtime gt    If you don t know how to create symbolic link here   mklink  D  name of the folder   Path to the dll   2- In this case when I remove the  secion from Web config file it worked  Remember I have reference to 6 0 0 0 and 4 5 0 0 in different projects  In symbolic link I had 12 0 1 0 dll and bin 6 0 0 0    lt runtime gt   lt assemblyBinding xmlns  urn schemas-microsoft-com asm v1  gt   lt dependentAssembly gt   lt probing privatePath  bin 12 0 1dlls-path     gt   lt  dependentAssembly gt   lt  assemblyBinding gt   lt  runtime gt    3- I have one more solution  If you have different versions of Newtonsoft Json dll in different projects try to upgrade all into one version or to the latest version  But in some case it might not work  Ex  System Net Http Formatting dll might need the version of Nettonsoft Json dll 6 0 0 0  In this case you need the vision 6 0 0 0  so try to make all into same version  Hope this might help some one

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uninstall-package newtonsoft json -force install-package newtonsoft json   Did the trick for me

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In my case I had folder name Newtonsoft Json 6 0 7    but  csproj file had path though folder     Newtonsoft Json 6 0 5        Changing  csproj file to have 6 0 7 fixed the problem

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Right click your project select manage Nuget packages  type newtonsoft in the search box and install the latest version  Then Run your App

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Normally adding the binding redirect should solve this problem  but it was not working for me  After a few hours of banging my head against the wall  I realized that there was an xmlns attribute causing problems in my web config  After removing the xmlns attribute from the configuration node in Web config  the binding redirects worked as expected   http   www davepaquette com archive 2014 10 02 could-not-load-file-or-assembly-newtonsoft-json-version4-5-0-0 aspx

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You have 2 different versions of JSON NET library in your solution  To solve this you should upgrade them to latest version  Follow these steps   1-Open solution explorer 2-Right Click on solution name 3-Select Manage Nuget Packages for Solution 4-Select Updates from menu 5-Update JSON NET package  This will resolve your issue   link   Could not load file or assembly   39 Newtonsoft Json  Version 7 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 30ad4fe6b2a6aeed  39  or one of its dependencies

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I ve been struggling with it for a day or so too  tried every solution  What helped me was to check that capital letters in app config  I had PublicKeyToken instead of publicKeyToken  after changing it suddenly worked

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I solved this issue by installing the Nuget package  Microsoft ASP NET Web API 2 2 Client Libraries  This in turn installed newtonsoft json version 6 04

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You should update the web config file in the server  When nuget install NewtonSoft update this file including this code   lt runtime gt   lt assemblyBinding xmlns  urn schemas-microsoft-com asm v1  gt     lt dependentAssembly gt       lt assemblyIdentity name  Newtonsoft Json  publicKeyToken  30ad4fe6b2a6aeed  culture  neutral    gt       lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  0 0 0 0-6 0 0 0  newVersion  6 0 0 0    gt     lt  dependentAssembly gt   lt  assemblyBinding gt

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In package manager console execute  Update-Package    reinstall Newtonsoft Json   UPDATE  I originally posted this as a comment but as  OwenBlacker suggested I ll just put it here   If you still get an error after doing this  then what worked for me eventually is that I deleted Json Net s  lt dependentAssembly gt  section from my  config file  Reinstall brings it back if it s not there and apparently you need to delete it  Until there will be a normal solution in the package itself  I m afraid this manual step is a must   Note  Please read the comments below before doing this    As per Ren   s comment below BE AWARE that the command posted in the answer will reinstall the package in every project in your solution  So if you use the Newtonsoft Json package in several projects and maybe use different versions  just executing the above command might have unwanted consequences

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The key point is referencing right version in your config file    Steps   1- look at what is the version of your Newtonsoft Json dll in the project reference property  what ever the version in your package folder  For example mine is 7 0 1 and the reference Version is 7 0 0 0   2- look at what the project expect from you in the exception  mine is 6 0 0 0   3- Add dependent assembly to your config file as it should be       lt dependentAssembly gt       lt assemblyIdentity name  Newtonsoft Json   publicKeyToken  30AD4FE6B2A6AEED  culture  neutral   gt       lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  0 0 0 0-6 0 0 0  newVersion  7 0 0 0   gt     lt  dependentAssembly gt

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You can find the installed version of ur library from the properties inside references  For my case i had 8 0 0 0 installed  Error says Could not load file or assembly  Newtonsoft Json  Version 6 0 0 0  Culture neutral  PublicKeyToken 30ad4fe6b2a6aeed  or one of its dependencies   So i had to add the following manually inside web config      lt dependentAssembly gt           lt assemblyIdentity name  Newtonsoft Json  publicKeyToken  30ad4fe6b2a6aeed    gt           lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  6 0 0 0-8 0 0 0  newVersion  8 0 0 0    gt         lt  dependentAssembly gt

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Reinstall newtonsoft package through nuget did not worked for me   I had to manually call JsonConvert DeserializeObject to bypass this issue  I changed   HttpResponseMessage response   await client GetAsync url    response EnsureSuccessStatusCode    MyObject data   await response Content ReadAsAsync lt MyObject gt       For   HttpResponseMessage response   await client GetAsync url    response EnsureSuccessStatusCode    string jsonStr   await response Content ReadAsStringAsync    MyObject data   JsonConvert DeserializeObject lt MyObject gt  jsonStr

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Deploy the correct version to the CI machine  This is telling you that the assembly loader found a different version of the Newtonsoft Json assembly  that does not match the reference you created in your project  To load the assembly correctly  you must either deploy the assembly side by side with your compiled code  or install the correct version of the assembly in the destination machine  i e  in the GAC    Alternative  make sure the configuration is in the correct file  If you want to keep the current solution  and load an assembly with a different version  make sure that the configuration you posted is in the correct  config file  Remember that there is no xpto dll config  a DLL loaded by an application always uses the config file of the running application

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I think you are pointing to the wrong target  change it to 4 5 instead of 6 0   lt dependentAssembly gt       lt assemblyIdentity name  Newtonsoft Json  publicKeyToken  30ad4fe6b2a6aeed          culture  neutral    gt       lt bindingRedirect oldVersion  0 0 0 0-6 0 0 0  newVersion  4 5 0 0    gt   lt  dependentAssembly gt    This should work

[asp.net] Could not load file or assembly 'Newtonsoft.Json, Version=4.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=30ad4fe6b2a6aeed'

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