No, it is not possible. The assemblies need to have the same publicKeyToken. The bindingRedirect tag only has the oldVersion and newVersion attributes, so there’s no way to tell it about the “null” version anyway. But the real reason behind is explained due to the strong name mechanism
This is how I got things working with version 1.2.11.0. Curse apache for changing the key in the first place 🙂 Download the version of 1.2.11.0 signed with the old key. Sort out your own code out by removing any direct references to log4net (new key) and replace with a reference to the assembly signed … Read more
Using PowerShell, you can execute this statement: ([system.reflection.assembly]::loadfile(“C:\..\Full_Path\..\MyDLL.dll”)).FullName The output will provide the Version, Culture and PublicKeyToken as shown below: MyDLL, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=669e0ddf0bb1aa2a