Question

I am getting this ambiguous reference error with some software that came from a vendor. The problem is, I need to keep both DLLs in my project, because various parts of it use code from both. So… I need to know the syntax for explicitly specifying the assembly. In other words, I want to do exactly what the error message is telling me to do – but I can’t find the syntax for that anywhere. Many people have this problem and Google searches turn up a lot ‘close VS and re-open the project’ or ‘you need to update’ solutions – but I’m not looking for that – I just want to explicitly specify the assembly to use in this one file. I really hate having to fix vendor code. Why is the syntax for this not listed in MSDN anywhere? If you have the link, please post it, I think I’ve seen it before, but I can’t find it now.

<%@ Control Language='vb' AutoEventWireup='false' Codebehind='Settings.ascx.vb'  Inherits='TIMSSCMS.DNN.Modules.CustomerDemographics.Settings' %> 

The type ‘TIMSSCMS.DNN.Modules.CustomerDemographics.Settings’ is ambiguous: it could come from assembly ‘c:\inetpub\wwwroot\EbusMain\bin\AWWA.DNN.Modules.CustomerDemographics.DLL’ or from assembly ‘c:\inetpub\wwwroot\EbusMain\bin\Personify.DNN.Modules.CustomerDemographics.DLL’. Please specify the assembly explicitly in the type name.

Answer 1

You mean like this?

TIMSSCMS.DNN.Modules.CustomerDemographics.Settings, TIMSSCMS.DNN, Version=x.x.x.x, Culture=neutral, ( PublicKeyToken=...)