Visual Studio References and versioning - how does it work?

Question

We have several common libs. Ideally we want them all to use the latest version of a dll even if they have been compiled against an older different version (assume the latest ve

Answer 1

I came across this site which has a couple of suggestions: http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2008/02/23/get-control-over-your-assembly-dependencies/

To get a specific version apparently you have to edit web.config or app.config?

"Finally, take a look at your csproj file using notepad (or unload the project in Visual Studio to be able to open it as text). When you add references using Visual Studio you will get a assembly reference with both version number and public key and this can give you some trouble when you upgrade a vendor assembly to a newer version."
http://blog.fredrikhaglund.se/blog/2008/02/23/get-control-over-your-assembly-dependencies/