Visual Studio 2008 SP1 assembly reference confusion?

The File Version is 3.5.8080.0 The Assembly Version is 3.5.1.0 You can confirm this by opening the properties of the file in Explorer, and switching to the "Version" tab (well, you can for the Desktop files which also report themselves as 3.5.8080.0, but are in fact 3.5.1.0. You can't for the Devices files, but the same explanation applies) Visual Studio doesn't interact with the GAC at all when it comes to referencing assemblies (in fact, see the related question Why does the . NET tab in the 'Add Reference' dialog in Visual Studio not list the contents of the GAC?).

The File Version is 3.5.8080.0. The Assembly Version is 3.5.1.0. You can confirm this by opening the properties of the file in Explorer, and switching to the "Version" tab (well, you can for the Desktop files which also report themselves as 3.5.8080.0, but are in fact 3.5.1.0.

You can't for the Devices files, but the same explanation applies) Visual Studio doesn't interact with the GAC at all when it comes to referencing assemblies (in fact, see the related question Why does the . NET tab in the 'Add Reference' dialog in Visual Studio not list the contents of the GAC? ).

I see. I have been wondering what is the difference between File Version and Assembly Version since I recently noticed that DLLs have two versions in the Version tab and they always had the same value for the few times I saw them (in other DLLs). I googled about the difference after you pointed out that the values are different.

Now I understand the difference between the two properties. I also just found out that assemblies in the GAC don't have a File Version. Instead, they have a Product Version.

For System.Data. SqlServerCE, it just happens to have the same value as File Version. – Kal Sep 29 at 7:19.

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