Assembly binding redirect not working

Question

I am trying to deploy a test web app on Azure, but when I run the Azure emulator on my local machine I get this error from the Azure emulator console attached to my WebRole:

Answer 1

As of today with the latest SDK a WebRoleProjectName.dll.config will be automatically generated for you with the contents of the Web.config and copied to the output directory.

However this won't be automatically be included in the deployment package! For this to happen you have to employ a kind of hackish solution: include the generated file in the project by selecting "show all files", then including just this file. The resulting change in the csproj should look like this (not, don't select it to be "Copy always"!):