Yes, I think it was a reference mix up. I just started to remove the file references and include the corresponding source projects of the removed DLLs. I lost my overview as VS starts to gripe that source component A cannot call compiled component B. I clicked on recompile and the result was a list of 115 errors, where the first five or six (all I could see at once) messages where the mentioned one. Situation comedy, but that day I was not in the mood to laugh ;)