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Asked: 2026-05-31T13:48:27+00:00

I just installed the Visual Studio 11 and MVC 4 beta on my local

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I just installed the Visual Studio 11 and MVC 4 beta on my local machine. However, whenever I open up an MVC 3 project (that I want to keep as MVC 3), all the references have been updated to the version 4 DLLs. Surely it shouldn’t be doing that?

The MVC 3 project opens in Visual Studio 2010.

UPDATE:

I looked in the .csproj file of my MVC 3 project and I can see all of the references in place, but they don’t specify paths. If no path is specified, does it just pick up the latest version of the DLL?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can specify which version of an assembly you require in the Include attribute as shown here:

    <Reference Include="System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0" />

    Without specifying a path or version, Visual Studio will match on any assembly with the same name.

    You can find out more about Reference resolution in Visual Studio at the following links:

    Visual Studio Integration (MSBuild)

    ResolveAssemblyReference Task

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