ALINK : warning AL1073: Referenced assembly 'mscorlib.dll' targets a different processor

Question

We are using VS2013 and .Net 4.5.1(recently migrated, but this error is there from .Net 4.0) . This error occurs only when compiling the project in platform target x64. Is t

Answer 1

These warnings are shown in the projects that contain localization satellite assemblies(.resx files) in the solution.

This is the bug from Microsoft side and as of Aug 2017, Microsoft still hasn't fixed it.

Here's the quote from the MS feedback page:

It is resulting from a logic bug in the .NET framework binary alink.dll. But given the limited impact of this issue and the fact that this tool has a very high bar for servicing we will not be making a change to address this issue.

Regards,

Ed Maurer Development Lead, VB & C# Compilers