Forcing the ASP.NET Application to load the assembly from bin not from GAC

Question

Is there any way to force my asp.net application to load the assembly from local bin directory since there is another older version of the assembly with the same name in the

Answer 1

The oldVersion configuration that is suggested by Muse VSExtensions works! You can use the strong name for the local assembly: Please look this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7wd6ex19.aspx

Basically in web.config add something like:

That way if i have an assembly in the gac that can be from version 2.0.0.0 to version 2.5.0.0 all the calls would be redirected to the newVersion (3.0.0.0)

In the assemblies section I added the assembly:

And that's it.