Avoid assembly reference problems generally

Question

I\'ve searched a lot but wasn\'t able to find a solution yet.

We have a lot of programs for our clients with shared libs (dlls) in one directory. But if one lib gets

Answer 1

What about assembly binding redirection - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/433ysdt1(v=vs.110).aspx (one more msdn link) ?

You can specify in the config redirection to a new version, so it wont require recompile. But if signature of classes\methods that you are using will be changed - then it will throw an exception anyway.

ASP.Net MVC uses this approach to specify redirection to a new version of MVC: