NDepend - Several .NET assemblies have the name {MyAssembly} but they are different

Question

I've just started using NDepend and am trying to analyse a solution.

This warning appears when I add the solution's assemblies and it will not load any assemblies with the warning:

Cant' load the assembly {MyAssembly}: Several .NET assemblies have the name {MyAssembly} but they are different: ...list of the .dlls in the project which contain this assembly

What could be causing this? I am using a common AssemblyInfo.cs file as well as the standard one to set some common attributes but there are no conflicts between these attributes.

Answer 1

David, the error is that in the set of input folders you provided in your NDepend project, NDepend found several different occurences of {MyAssembly.dll}. Meaning for example you have a {MyAssembly v1.0.1} file and a {MyAssembly v1.0.2} file.

Apparently this is something you were not aware of, so NDepend did a good job at exhibiting a flaw.

In the Project Property > Code to Analyze panel, hover the assembly {MyAssembly} with the mouse. In the tooltip that appears, you'll see several paths to different occurence of the different {MyAssembly.dll} files.