What does “Version” mean when viewing reference properties in Visual Studio?
What does “Version” mean when viewing reference properties in Visual Studio? I am currently battling "DLL hell" in Visual Studio 2017. For unknown reasons, I suddenly got a problem with System.ValueTuple, where the error I get is the classic problem that have been asked many times before: Could not load file or assembly 'System.ValueTuple, Version=4.0.2.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. I cannot really figure it out, as I have dont think I should have any reference to 4.0.2.0. VS tells me the following: What I dont get is how the "Version" of the System.ValueTuple says 4.0.2.0, when I have installed version 4.4.0 according to the path of the DLL and according to NuGet Manager. So, why is it like this? You have installed the version 4.4.0 of the NuGet package that doesn't necessarily contain an assembly with version 4.4.0.0. ...