How can I force .NET to use a local copy of an assembly that's in the GAC

Question

I have a .NET assembly that (for reasons outside my control) must be in the GAC. However, the same assembly is used by another program, which has a its own copy of

Answer 1

I had a similar issue. I changed the publicKeyToken of the target dll by using ildasm and ilasm to generate a new dll. I then updated it in the project reference to point to the new dll. The steps I took are here.

This worked for me.