resolveassemblyreference

Metadata file '...\Release\project.dll' could not be found in Visual Studio

Recently I started to get this message randomly. I have a solution with several projects in it. Current build mode is Debug and all projects' configuration is set to Debug. But when I try to run the main project - sometimes it gives me a few errors all of which are "Metadata file '...\Release\projectX.dll' could not be found" - and, look...

Resolving Assemblies, the fuzzy way

Here's the setup: A pure DotNET class library is loaded by an unmanaged desktop application. The Class Library acts as a plugin. This plugin loads little baby plugins of its own (all DotNET Class Libraries), and it does so by reading the dll into memory as a byte-stream, then Assembly asm = Assembly.Load(COFF_Image); The problem aris...