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

Question

I have found plenty of information out there about this error: \'ERROR: Could not load file or assembly \'*.dll\' or one of its dependencies. Access is denied.’ But i haven

Answer 1

I ran into this problem and it turned out that a referenced package/assembly was being encrypted by Windows. This happened because my company implemented a policy to require the My Documents folder to be encrypted and my Visual Studio solutions happened to be under that directory.

I could manually go into the file/directory properties in Windows Explorer and disable encryption. But in my case this was a temporary solution since the network policy would eventually change it back. I wound up moving my VS solution to another un-encrypted location.