Use of specific version reference in Visual Studio 2008

Question

I have an assembly, Foo, which has a reference to assembly Bar (version X.X.X.2000). In the properties, the specific version is set to False. I have both Bar (x.x.x.2000) an

Answer 1

"Specific Version" is a build-time property directing the compiler to use the available version. At run-time, the framework still looks for the specific version of the assembly that was used at build time.

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