Avoid assembly reference problems generally

Question

I\'ve searched a lot but wasn\'t able to find a solution yet.

We have a lot of programs for our clients with shared libs (dlls) in one directory. But if one lib gets

Answer 1

What about assembly binding redirection - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/433ysdt1(v=vs.110).aspx (one more msdn link) ?

You can specify in the config redirection to a new version, so it wont require recompile. But if signature of classes\methods that you are using will be changed - then it will throw an exception anyway.

ASP.Net MVC uses this approach to specify redirection to a new version of MVC:

<runtime>
    <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
        <dependentAssembly>
            <assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
            <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-2.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" />
        </dependentAssembly>
        <dependentAssembly>
            <assemblyIdentity name="Newtonsoft.Json" publicKeyToken="30ad4fe6b2a6aeed" culture="neutral" />
            <bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.5.0.0" newVersion="4.5.0.0" />
        </dependentAssembly>
    </assemblyBinding>
</runtime>