Understanding a csproj assembly reference

Which reference-type you get depends on how you link the assembly. select the referenced assembly in the project-explorer go to the properties-page there you find a boolean flag “specific Version” true means: the assembly must have version=xxx false means: ignore the assembly version (I only have a german-vs2010 so the english translation for the german … Read more

Shared AssemblyInfo for uniform versioning across the solution

It is possible to link to a shared assembly info file in VS 2010. Ashish Jain has a good blog post about it: Sharing assembly version across projects in a solution. After creating the shared assembly info file at the solution level, his instructions for linking to it from a project are: Right click on … Read more

Could not load file or assembly or one of its dependencies. Access is denied. The issue is random, but after it happens once, it continues

For my scenario, I found that there was a identity node in the web.config file. <identity impersonate=”true” userName=”blah” password=”blah”> When I removed the userName and password parameters from node, it started working. Another option might be that you need to make sure that the specified userName has access to work with those “Temporary ASP.NET Files” … Read more