Why is Visual Studio 2015 adding stdole.dll and Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AdomdClient.dll to my project?

Question

These DLLs are not added to my project in prior versions of Visual Studio. My guess is that one of my references has a dependency to these DLLs. From what I\'ve read, the hi

Answer 1

I have been dealing with this problem for ages.

Whenever I install anything from the web platform or any updates the stdole.dll gets replaced with a non signed version. I reported the bug to Microsoft a while back but fell on deaf ears.

I go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft.NET\Primary Interop Assemblies and copy the signed version (22kb) from here and replace the version in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Visual Studio Tools for Office\PIA\Common (16kb) and that solves the problem.

Scott