.net / asp.net
Small Gotcha in .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2 to RTM Upgrade
JD Conley
Updated July 22, 2011
Visual Studio 2008 was officially released today to MSDN subscribers so I took the leap and did the upgrade. I ran into an issue with a simple fix that I thought everyone should be aware of. You'll get an error message stating: "Could not load file or assembly 'System.Data.DataSetExtensions, Version=2.0.0.0...". This is somewhat cryptic, but easy to fix.
If you have a web project that was running under .NET 3.5 beta 2 you will have an assembly reference as follows:
<compilation><assemblies> ... <add assembly="System.Data.DataSetExtensions, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/></assemblies></compilation>
Notice the version number is 2.0.0.0. This was apparently changed at the RTM and the version number should be 3.5.0.0 like:
<compilation><assemblies> ... <add assembly="System.Data.DataSetExtensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B77A5C561934E089"/></assemblies></compilation>
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