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Asked: 2026-05-18T12:23:35+00:00

I believe that I am dealing with some DLL hell. I have a reference

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I believe that I am dealing with some DLL hell.

I have a reference to Microsoft.TeamFoundations.VersionControl.Client in my application and ‘copy local’ is set to true. The application runs as expected on my development machine.

When I deploy this application I get an exception when trying to execute Microsoft.TeamFoundations.VersionControl.Client.DownloadFile()

Method not found: ‘System.IO.Stream Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.Item.DownloadFile()’.

The version that gets deployed to my bin directory is version 9.0.3. The method exists. I noticed that a previous version of this dll does live in 

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies

How come my application does not appear to be using the assembly that I referenced within my solution and ends up in bin? How can I force this to happen?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The application insisted on referencing these dlls from the GAC. I ended up installing VS 2010 on the development environment and referencing the Microsoft.TeamFoundation dlls from the GAC. VS 2010 installed version 10 of the Team Foundation dlls into the development GAC.

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