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The assembly manifest can be stored in either a PE file (an .exe or . dll) with Microsoft intermediate language (MSIL) code or in a standalone PE file that contains only assembly manifest information. The following illustration shows the different ways the manifest can be stored.
If the runtime determines that an assembly matches the calling assembly's criteria, it uses that assembly. When the file specified by the given <codeBase> element is loaded, the runtime checks to make sure that the name, version, culture, and public key match the calling assembly's reference.
In summary if you get the "Could not load file or assembly error", this means that either your projects or their references were built with a reference to a specific version of an assembly which is missing from your bin directory or GAC.
This is a mismatch between assemblies: a DLL referenced from an assembly doesn't have a method signature that's expected.
Clean the solution, rebuild everything, and try again.
Also, be careful if this is a reference to something that's in the GAC; it could be that something somewhere is pointing to an incorrect version. Make sure (through the Properties of each reference) that the correct version is chosen or that Specific Version is set false.
I recently had this issue and I ran 'depends.exe' on the dll in question. It showed me that the dll was compiled in x86 while some of the dependencys were compiled in x64.
If you are still having troubles I would recommend using depends.exe.
In my case for a wcf rest services project I had to add a runtime section to the web.config where there the requested dll was:
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="DotNetOpenAuth.Core" publicKeyToken="2780ccd10d57b246" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.1.0.0" newVersion="4.1.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
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<runtime>
My problems solved by remove all the runtime part
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Helpers" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"/>
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.WebPages" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35"/>
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
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