Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.Data.OData Version=5.2.0.0 error in Azure Cloud Worker Role using Table Storage

Question

I have a very peculiar issue using Azure Table Storage. I have a .NET 4.5 project in Visual Studio 2012 where I deal with all my Azure Table Storage functions. This project/

Answer 1

I had a very similar problem but in this case it exception message was;

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Data.OData, Version=5.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)

note it was trying to load v5.5.0.0 of the OData assembly.

After some digging around with ILSpy (http://www.ilspy.net) I discovered that Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage 2.0.0.0 was explictly referencing Microsoft.Data.OData 5.2.0.0 - which I didn't have as my version was 5.5.0.0.

So the solution was to use the NuGet package manager to uninstall Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage, this inturn uninstalled Microsoft.Data.OData 5.5. Then again using the NuGet package manager, reinstall Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage which identified that it needed Microsoft.Data.OData 5.2 and installed that too.

and back to a working solution.