Suzanne Cook's .NET CLR NotesCommon Language Runtime DeveloperBinding to .NET Frameworks Assemblies- July 31, 2003 By "Frameworks assemblies," I mean the assemblies that ship with the CLR. But, I'm not counting mscorlib.dll, since it's special in a different way. With v1.0 SP3 or later, Frameworks assemblies are unified. That means that the version of those assemblies that you request is ignored - you get the version that matches the loaded CLR. This only applies when the assembly is loaded by version - that is, by assembly display name or static reference (AssemblyRef in the CLR metadata). For example,...http://blogs.msdn.com/suzcook/archive/2003/07/30/binding-to-net-frameworks-assemblies.aspx |