The explicit binding redirect conflicts with an autogenerated binding redirect

Question

I am receiving the following warning when I build my solution:

The explicit binding redirect on "Microsoft.Azure.Documents.Client, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35" conflicts with an autogenerated binding redirect. Consider removing it from the application configuration file or disabling autogenerated binding redirects. The build will replace it with: "< bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-1.22.0.0" newVersion="1.22.0.0" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" />"

However, my app.config file in the project is only the following, without any explicit assembly binding redirects:

<configuration></configuration>

Why is there a conflict if I do not have any explicit binding redirects? My csproj file does not have any mention of AutoGenerateBindingRedirects, for the record.

Answer 1

I had a similar issue, the sequence that fixed it for me was:

1. Remove problematic dependency entry from App.config
2. Un-check Auto-generate binding redirects from project properties
3. Uninstall & Reinstall nuget package that required the dependency
4. In my case, it prompted me to now re-check the Auto-generate binding redirects in my project properties.