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I have a VC++ project and I need to add a reference to a managed dll. This dll has a version number which changes every build. When I add it to my project, its version is saved and if I replace it with another one (with a different version number) the project cannot compile because it doesn’t find the dll with the version previously saved.
Is there a way to add a reference without a specific version?
Thank you for your help
The C# IDE has the “Specific Version” property for a reference but the C++/CLI build system doesn’t support that. There is a workaround, you can use the #using directive in source code to load an assembly reference. This by design cannot check the assembly version of the reference assembly. Normally that’s a problem but not in your case. The MSDN page is here.