Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Practices.EnterpriseLibrary.Common' or one of its dependencies

Question

I have searched google for this and could not find the solution to the problem.

My Website references DAL (custom dll) which references Enterprise Library Data Acces

Answer 1

This dll is likely to be in the GAC on developer machines as part of some windows application installation (my best guesses are Visual Studio or SSMS). That’s why we are likely to get warnings or errors on the build machine which we try our best to keep the GAC as clean as the production server’s.

To download the file manually, you can go to https://servicelocation.codeplex.com/

To fix the build warnings and errors, you simply need to run a NuGet command to install the CommonServiceLocation package. The package contains only this one dll file. Microsoft has released only 1 version (1.0.0.0) of this file since 2008. The file is fully compatible with all .NET versions and all Unity versions.