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I get the following problem activating a feature in powershell:

Enable-SPFeature : The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040)

I can activate the feature just fine through VS (by deploying the solution) as well as the browser.

The feature has feature receiver code. I have another feature (with feature receiver) which activates just fine through Powershell.

Any ideas?

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I had this problem today when I tried to deploy in my development environment. I tried to retract. But it didn't help. In my case somewhere it failed to remove dll from GAC. So I deleted my dll from GAC (C:\Windows\assembly) and the deploy worked.

By the way, I ran iisreset /noforce before being able to delete the dll file.

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  • I tried taking the dlls out of GAC but to no avail. I don't know what exactly happened but I came back to work the next day and everything is working fine... One of many SharePoint mysteries... – Emon Sep 28 '11 at 20:50
  • :) Fun that it worked. Sharepoint is really a mystery. – Anatoly Mironov Sep 29 '11 at 9:17
  • exactly wich dll we're talking about ? – Shenging Feb 14 '14 at 17:33
  • Your dll, the dll that is deployed through your custom wsp. – Anatoly Mironov Feb 16 '14 at 23:38
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First thing I do is close my PowerShell window & open a new instance, this works almost every time. If not I move onto restarting SPTimerv4 & IISreset, retract & deploy. if its still a no go I rebuild my package and manually remove the existing files.

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Try running restart-service SPTimerV4 before you do your solution add/deploy and feature activation. This article by Bjørn Stærk describes the problem and the solution.

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