I'm trying to run the Access providers for .NET, and I followed Imar's article to the letter. I am receiving this error.

Could not load file or assembly 'SampleAccessProvider' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)

It sounds like something is named differently in two places or something. Anyway, when it didn't work, I did some searches. This worked for several people...

Change this:

<add name="AccessMembershipProvider" type="Samples.AccessProviders.AccessMembershipProv ider, SampleAccessProviders"

To this for each provider:

 <add name="AccessMembershipProvider" type="Samples.AccessProviders.AccessMembershipProv ider"



I've tried this, however, I'm still getting the same error. I've even tried changing the type to...

Samples.SampleAccessProvider.AccessMembershipProvi der
SampleAccessProvider.AccessMembershipProvider

Any ideas?

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Hi there,

What's the name of the DLL in your web site's Bin folder you use for the AccessMembership? And did you make the necessary changes to the project before you compile the DLL?

Imar
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Hi!

When compiling the project I renamed it to "SampleAccessProviders" and that is the name of the .dll which I copied to the bin folder of my new project where I'm building the login system.

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Did you just rename the DLL? Or did you follow the steps (and only those) outlined in the article?

You'll see in the comments that other people reported the same issue, but it always came down to a naming issue...


Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
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Everyone is unique, except for me.
Author of Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 : in C# and VB, ASP.NET 2.0 Instant Results and Dreamweaver MX 2004
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I thought I followed the steps exactly. But it sounds like if I even mistyped something and then corrected it later by renaming the dll, it would be a problem? I don't remember doing anything like that, but it's possible.

I will start a new C# project and try everything again including recompiling the assemblies. Not the answer I was hoping for, but at least it gives me something to hang my hat on. Thanks :)

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