Question

I decided to modify some code today, and encountered an error that doesn’t make any sense to me. I have an interface called IDatabase and a class that inherits from it, called Database. I originally just put IDatabase in the same assembly as Database, but I didn’t like this because it would prevent another person from creating a new type of IDatabase without having the entire assembly. I moved IDatabase into a new, separate assembly called LibraryInterfaces, and changed all of my references in the project.

The project compiles fine, but when I execute it, I get the error:

Could not load type 'Company.Database.IDatabase' from assembly 'Company.Database'.

This doesn’t make any sense to me, because I moved IDatabase‘s definition to LibraryInterfaces! I double checked the files in the folder that is being run from, and the files are correct. I even opened them up in Reflector, just to double-check all of the references, and those are correct as well. I have also removed my using statement and have fully qualified all usage of IDatabase, and even that didn’t do the trick!

Does anyone have tips for correcting this issue?

Answer 1

I’ve run into similar problems. delete everything in the bin folder, clean the solution and rebuild.