Visual Studio References and versioning - how does it work?

Question

We have several common libs. Ideally we want them all to use the latest version of a dll even if they have been compiled against an older different version (assume the latest ve

Answer 1

By default, for versioned DLLs I believe VS will force an exact match. If you look in the properties of the reference, however, you'll find a property called "Specific Version". Set that to "false" and it will match later versions.

I don't have the full version of VS with me to find an appropriate MSDN link, unfortunately.

In addition, you can use the assemblyBinding element in app.config.