Why do I get a warning icon when I add a reference to an MEF plugin project?

.net mef project-reference
ProfK picture ProfK · Nov 25, 2013 · Viewed 146.8k times · Source

I wish to test the core class of a plugin by directly referencing the plugin project and instantiating the plugin class. When I create a test Console App project and add a project reference to the plugin project, I get a warning icon (yellow triangle with exclamation mark) next to the reference in the References list.

When I instead add a reference to the dll, the assembly build output of the plugin, I get no such warning. What could this warning be trying to tell me?

Answer

kad81 picture kad81 · Jan 30, 2015

As mentioned in the question's comments, differing .NET Framework versions between the projects can cause this. Check your new project's properties to ensure that a different default version isn't being used.

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