Could not load file or assembly 'xxxx' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified

Question

Inside VS2005, our whole programming staff gets this error message sporadically and it is always on the BeneControls project. This error me

Answer 1

I've seen this in the past in a situation where the control was in the same assembly as the consumer - the GAC and versioning didn't help there -- it seems to be related to the way that the designer locks the assembly in memory, and refuses to budge.

The advice our developers have is to not leave form designers open when closing VS, or switching between build types (I think it's due to the sharing the same output folder between build configurations in VB.Net)