ASP.NET MVC4 solution fails to build after installing KB2993928

Question

We have an ASP.NET MVC 4 solution with a couple of references that has been building without problems for about 2 years now. However, after installing KB2993928 and KB2993937 th

Answer 1

If this issue is caused by references which in turn have dependencies on those specific assemblies, you can remedy this by coercing FxCop to use only the StrongName and ignore the version number. This solution is described here.

Of course the real solution would be to update the referenced assemblies (with the indirect dependencies) to newer versions.