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Question

We have the following shared component:

public class OurServiceBase : System.ServiceProcess.ServiceBase

This class has functionality we wan

Answer 1

I had a solution with 2 projects (one referencing the other) and I had just set one to target .Net 4.5.2 and the other was targetting 4.5.

Tip: view the warning messages in the Error List:

There was a mismatch between the processor architecture of the project being built "MSIL" and the processor architecture of the reference "C:....dll", "x86". This mismatch may cause runtime failures. Please consider changing the targeted processor architecture of your project through the Configuration Manager so as to align the processor architectures between your project and references, or take a dependency on references with a processor architecture that matches the targeted processor architecture of your project.