You must add a reference to assembly 'System, Version=1.0.5000.0

I'm trying to include a html to pdf converter in my C# program for windows mobile. I found Pdfizer. I added a refence to Pdfizer.dll and included it with using Pdfizer; Also I added a reference to itextsharp that is required for Pdfizer. Pdfizer is correctly added and I can use many of its functions and classes but I can't use HtmlToPdfCo...

Missing reference while Converting VS2008 project to VS2010 project

When i converted a VS2008 project to 2010 it shows an error message The type name 'IComponentConnector' could not be found in the namespace 'System.Windows.Markup'. This type has been forwarded to assembly 'System.Xaml, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' Consider adding a reference to that assembly. and it...

How do I get my program to reference an assembly from another folder?

Background First of all, I did look elsewhere for a solution and found this solution , but this does not solve my issue. I have an assembly referenced in my main project in Visual Studio, but I need to load it from outside my project, not in a sub-folder . I can load the assembly with the call... System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFrom(myEx te...

System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly

While trying to execute my web application, it throws the following error. It says Matrix.Data.dll could not load. I tried to rebuild the assembly and reference it again. But no use. Also, it is showing a warning 'Assembly binding logging is turned OFF' and what will be the performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging...

FluentValidation - assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference

After adding the latest version of FluentValidation.MVC3 to a NopCommerce aplication i am receiving the following error, [Exception: Could not load file or assembly 'FluentValidation, Version=3.2.0.0,Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=a82054b837897c66' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not mat...

How to find location that visual studio is looking for an assembly reference

So I am doing a project in .NET and C#. A Assembly reference is missing and it has the little warning sign on it. I am wondering how to see where the visual studio project is looking to where it says this project is not there. How do I do that? By assembly reference I mean when you open the project and then open the references folder wher...

Adding a Reference to System.Web

I am trying to create some cookies as I cannot fetch the cookies and a normal way so I will run through the whole header and just create the cookie manually. However whenever I try to use Response.Cookies HttpCookie I get an error: The name Response does not exist in the current content The type or namespace name 'HttpCookie' could not b...

The type or namespace name 'CrystalReportViewer' does not exist in the namespace 'CrystalDecisions.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference?)

m getting the following error on using crystal report in my asp.net 3.5 a3-tier application the type or namespace name 'CrystalReportViewer' does not exist in the namespace 'CrystalDecisions.Web' (are you missing an assembly reference?) the namespaces i have included are:= using System; using System.Collections; using System.Configuration...

NHibernate 3.3 and SysCache

The current version of SysCache does not appear to work with NHibernate 3.3. I replaced the NHibernate dlls in my web/bin directory and left the SysCache dll (which works with 3.2) untouched. Now when IIS tries to do a pre-bind it loads the SysCache dll and tries to bind it to NHibernate 3.2.0.4000 and fails. [FileLoadException: Could not...

How to add reference to System.Web.Optimization for MVC-3-converted-to-4 app

I'm trying to use the new bundling feature in a project I recently converted from MVC 3 to MVC 4 beta. It requires a line of code in global.asax, BundleTable.Bundles.RegisterTemplateBund les(); , which requires using System.Web.Optimization; at the top. When I do this, I get the red squiggly lines that say, "Are you missing an assembly r...

C# Console Pogram and Assembly reference

When I use Visual Studio to create a C# console application, I can readily use the Console class since it's defined in the System namespace mscorlib assembly ). I am assuming the reference to mscorlib is added in the machine.config file. However, in , I can see that some more references are also added automatically in the *.csproj file...

COM+ component not finding reference

I have a com+ component, which can be found in a dll called DataLayer. When I'm trying to access it a SerializationException is thrown. System.Runtime.Serialization.Serializati onException: Unable to find assembly 'DataLayer, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=536d0c71bd79a82e' Do someone know why it is not finding the assemb...

Azure could not find Reference to EntityFramework

My ASP.NET MVC 4 app is running perfectly on IIS and in IEExpress Environment. Unfortunately it seems to have a problem with different Versions of EntityFramework. All references are double and tripple checked for occurences of EF 4.1.0.0. All is unsing EF 4.3.0.0 right now. Somewhere the system seems to have a reference to 4.1.0.0 and it...

Resolving type in referenced .NET assembly

I'm unable to reference certain types in a separate assembly. The strange thing is that, when I browse the referenced assembly in the object model, I can see the type I'm looking for there. But when I try to reference the type, the compiler gives me "the type or namespace name cannot be found". More strange facts: I can reference another...

Visual Studio 2010 cannot add reference because it cannot connect to SQL server

I'm pretty new to Visual Studio so this might be an easy issue :) I have created a Visual C# SQL CLR Database project where I have created a Trigger. This trigger is supposed to access an IIS on another machine in the network. In order to do this I found that I needed System.DirectoryServices but when I added this VS complained that I nee...

Could not load file or assembly Telerik.Sitefinity

having some issues upgrading my Sitefinity 4.1.1339.0 installation to 4.3 (and ultimately to Sitefinity 5). It is giving me the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'Telerik.Sitefinity, Version=4.1.1339.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b28c218413bdf563' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition...

Can't load FSharp.Core version 4.0.0 in infer.net fun // hard link dependency in a dll ?

I am trying Infer.Net ( An F# Library for Probabilistic Programming And running the examples in VS11 Beta lead to the error : Could not load file or assembly 'FSharp.Core, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. If I open the dlls used th...

What causes "ComplexObject could not be found" error in Silverlight RIA project?

I have a Silverlight 4 RIA Services solution consisting of two projects, the first is the web host and RIA Services host web application. The second is the Silverlight client. I recently updated VS 2010 to Service Pack 1 and I suspect that has something to do with this problem, but I'm not sure. When building I am getting: The type or n...

Expression Blend Sketchflow reference build error

I'm working on a mobile application prototype in Expression Blend 4. Up until now it has worked fine, but after re-opening the program I can no longer build the project. I get 4 errors that are all pretty much the same: The primary reference "System.Windows.Controls.Toolkit, Version=5.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e3...

System.windows.media Assembley

How can i add assembly for System.windows.media to site who configure to asp.net 3.5.. I got the error: Compiler Error Message: CS0234: The type or namespace name 'Media' does not exist in the namespace 'System.Windows' (are you missing an assembly reference?)...

how do I fix the System.BadImageFormat exception?

I am having a visual studio 2010 window service application in .net framework version 3.5 but I need to use a dll in my service which was built in .net framework version 4.0.So I have upgraded my version to 4.0 but while installing my service i am having system.BadImageFormatException.How to fix this.Please suggest some solution. This is...

How to bundle a required DLL with a solution in Visual C# (2010)

I have an application written in C# which interfaces with some custom hardware using a vendor supplied .Net assembly. The .Net assembly in turn loads another DLL at run time. I can add the vendor supplied assembly to my project but when I run it, the vendor assembly complains that it can't load the required DLL. I can work around this for...

Reading the Version number from a AssemblyInfo.cs file

I'm trying to extract the version number from a AssemblyInfo.cs file. And I'm trying to use System.Reflection.Assembly.LoadFile(path ); But while doing this I get a BadImageFormatException; "The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131018)" . So now I wounder, is that not a possible way to go a...

Are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference. Visual Studio WebDeveloper 2010

So I'm having a little trouble trying to figure out what exactly I'm doing wrong here. I'll give you a basic rundown of what I've been doing. I am creating a Details with and one line of data is a boolean, We were using a CheckBoxField originally but now we are to remove that and use Boolean (True or False changed to Yes or No). So I remo...

Windows phone 7 FileNotFoundException System.Windows.debug.resources

I get the following exception when navigating to a page in my windows phone 7.1 silverlight application. What does this mean, and how can I solve this? System.IO.FileNotFoundException occurred Message=File or assembly name 'System.Windows.debug.resources, Version=2.0.5.0, Culture=en-US, PublicKeyToken=7cec85d7bea7798e', or one of its depe...

IIS skip assembly binding

I have a problem starting a Web Application of mine, which runs under IIS 8. The 'yellow screen of death' states this: Could not load file or assembly 'RegexAssemblyBuilder, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b40604c47d15475b' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Description: An unhandled ex...

C# web project complaining about a class

I created a new project (web project in C#). Created a new folder in my project called App_Code. I then proceeded to add a class with the following: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Web; using TKSEShipper.DataLayer; namespace Shipper.BusinessLayer { public static class BL { public s...

System.BadImageFormatException with Sqlite

I am trying to use SQLite with my WPF application. I can get the reads and writes to work ok. The only problem I have is that my xaml is not displaying and I get the following error: System.BadImageFormatException Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.SQLite, Version=1.0.80.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=db937bc2d44ff139' or on...

Silverlight: How Assembly version affects ApplicationSettengs

I am looking for information how IsolatedStorage.ApplicationSettings are affected by Assembly Version. Is there a way to specify version to get same ApplicationSettings for any version of same app?...

VS targeting wrong assembly

I had to rebuild the Krypton.Toolkit.dll from it's source in order to remove a license error message on runtime. In the references I have removed and replaced the old Krypton assemblies with the ones from source. I am now getting the error: (and a related cast type error) Could not load file or assembly 'ComponentFactory.Krypton.Toolkit,...

Beginner Visual C# express: Changing Assembly name in a project that references a DLL causes errors

Let me start by saying I am still a beginner with all the .NET jargon. I need some guidance. I have a project that references a DLL (I haven't written most of it). I decided I want to change the Executable name which I figured I would need to change the Assembly name. First Question: Do I need to change all the namespaces that has the old...

Can't reference System.Web in a console App

I need to use the HttpUtility in a console app like described in this question UrlEncode through a console application? The problem is that for some weird reason when I try to add a reference and go to .NET tab, I don't see System.web and also when I go to Recent and chose the System.Web, it adds the reference but with a yellow exclamatio...

Generating an Xml Serialization assembly as part of my build

This code produces a FileNotFoundException, but ultimately runs without issue: void ReadXml() XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyClass)); //... Here is the exception: A first chance exception of type 'System.IO.FileNotFoundException' occurred in mscorlib.dll Additional information: Could not load file or assembly 'MyA...

Load types from DLL in run time

I need to execute a method in an assembly loaded during runtime. The assemblies that I'm going to load are plugins that contain interface implementations. This is the loading class: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.IO; using System.Reflection; namespace Stub.Logic { public...

Could not load file or assembly antlr.runtime

I'm using MEF to add some parts to my ASP.net web application. I made a PoC project and everything works like a charm. But when I try to add it to my existing web app, I get the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'antlr.runtime, Version=2.7.6.2, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=1790ba318ebc5d56' or one of its dependencies.

"Could not load file or assembly System.Drawing or one of its dependencies" error on .Net 2.0, VS2010 and Windows 8

I am getting a FileNotFoundException on a Windows Forms Application project, with the following message: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. To replicate the problem: Select New, Project,...

Issues with clarifying fundamental ideas about what assembly is

I am having trouble finding a good place to start learning assembly. I have found lots of conflicting information throughout the internet as to what assembly actually is, which assemblers to use, what an assembler is, and whether there is one "core" assembly language released by intel for their specific CPU families (I have an intel x86 C...

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Web.Design.Server

Help please, I am having an error on the TFS. it complains that it cannot load the assembly below. the project works fine on my computer. I searched for the dll by there is no such dll called: Microsoft.Web.Design.Server. Any help pelase? System.IO.FileNotFoundException: , Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c...

Telerik WinForm Controls not showing Design-Time

I am having trouble dragging controls from Tool Box into Design-View for Windows Form using Telerik References. Instead of controls showing up in the Design-View, it shows up in the component box on the bottom. I tried adding the application extensions in the assembly using gacutil.exe. I also tried removing all reference and using it aga...

C# smo project assembly not referenced error

I am doing a C# project which is using smo objects(Server,Database). I included using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo; using Microsoft.SqlServer.Server; I have added Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo,Micro soft.SqlServer.Management.SmoExtended,Mi crosoft.SqlServer.SqlEnum,Microsoft.SqlS erver.ConnectionInfo. But still i am getting the e...