The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference

Question

I am trying to run some unit tests in a C# Windows Forms application (Visual Studio 2005), and I get the following error:

System.IO.FileLoadException: Co

Answer 1

After trying many of the above solutions with no fix, it came down to making sure 'Auto-generate binding redirects' was turned on within your application in Visual Studio.

More information on enabling automatic binding redirection can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/configure-apps/how-to-enable-and-disable-automatic-binding-redirection