The Visual Studio IDE doesn't do any building behind the scenes, the Msbuild application does. The VS IDE essentially just constructs the project file that is used by Msbuild and quite often it makes mistakes if you leave it up to the IDE to figure things out on it's own. If you are getting the Metadata file '.dll' could not be found error it is likely due to the fact that the correct/expected assemblies are not being found. So perhaps Visual Studio might be creating a project file for a 4.5 framework app, and expecting 4,5 assemblies, while you are referencing 4.0 assemblies. So look at your Visual Studio settings for incompatibilities or go into the project file yourself, and manually fix it by specifying the correct path <Reference Include="C:\\correct path to assembly\\yourAssembly.dll" />.

The Visual Studio IDE doesn't do any building behind the scenes, the Msbuild application does. The VS IDE essentially just constructs the project file that is used by Msbuild and quite often it makes mistakes if you leave it up to the IDE to figure things out on it's own. If you are getting the Metadata file '.dll' could not be found error it is likely due to the fact that the correct/expected assemblies are not being found. So perhaps Visual Studio might be creating a project file for a 4.5 framework app, and expecting 4,5 assemblies, while you are referencing 4.0 assemblies. So look at your Visual Studio settings for incompatibilities or go into the project file yourself, and manually fix it by specifying the correct path <Reference Include="C:\\correct path to assembly\\yourAssembly.dll" />.

我在Visual Studio 2015中遇到了这个错误，当时我从一个扩展方法的调用中删除了类型注释，只留下了空的尖括号。

所以我有obj.extensionMethod<>()而不是obj.extensionMethod<Type>()。

我会把这个归类为Visual Studio中的bug，因为我不知道这个错误是如何产生那个错误的。

在对解决方案进行了大量更改之后，我开始遇到这个问题，搁置更改并撤销它。

解决这个问题的唯一方法是删除并再次添加从TFS到我的本地文件夹的映射。

我看到这个错误是因为我在我的代码中有以下一行(看起来我仍然在SQL模式下思考):

if(myVar is null)
    DoSomething();

Visual studio(2017)在设计或编译时没有报告错误，但项目不会构建，并给出了“missing .dll”错误。将错误的行改为:

if(myVar == null)

问题解决了。

六年后，在升级到Visual Studio 2015时，又遇到了同样的问题。因为这个特解不在我加进去的这个列表里。

c:\windows\system32…文件夹中。 将它们移动到一个非系统文件夹，并添加一个对新文件夹的引用，最终解决了这个问题。其余的问题确实是其他人已经在这里说过的