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PO"Could not load file or assembly System.Drawing or one of its dependencies" error on .Net 2.0, VS2010 and Windows 8
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copied!<p>I am getting a FileNotFoundException on a Windows Forms Application project, with the following message: </p> <blockquote> <pre><code>Could not load file or assembly 'System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. </code></pre> </blockquote> <p>To replicate the problem: </p> <ul> <li>Select New, Project, choose .Net Framework 2.0 as the target and pick Windows Forms Application as the project type.</li> <li>On the properties of the form created by default, select a value for the Icon property. Any .ico file will do. This will embed the file on the resx file.</li> <li>Compile and run the application.</li> </ul> <p>When I do this, the program stops on the line <code>this.Icon = ((System.Drawing.Icon)(resources.GetObject("$this.Icon")));</code> with the following exception:</p> <pre><code>System.IO.FileNotFoundException was unhandled Message=Could not load file or assembly 'System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. Source=mscorlib FileName=System.Drawing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a </code></pre> <p>I’m getting this on Visual Studio 2010 SP1, recently installed on Windows 8 Developer Preview. If I change the project properties to target .Net Framework 4, the error goes away.</p> <p>On the Form1.resx file, I can see that the version of the System.Drawing assembly is explicitly stated as 2.0:</p> <pre><code><assembly alias="System.Drawing" name="System.Drawing, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" /> </code></pre> <p>Any ideas?</p>

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