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What is OWIN?

A few posts back I was looking at OAuth and I stumbled onto some posts with references to this thing called OWIN. Initially I thought it was a framework that wrapped OAuth to make it easier to use but it turned out to be a hosting solution with support for middleware. 

Could not load file or assembly ‘Owin

First day of trying the understand OWIN, I follow the steps from the microsoft site and are greeted by this error message. Could not load file or assembly ‘Owin, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=f0ebd12fd5e55cc5’ or one of its dependencies. The located assembly’s manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040) There are possible… Read More »