title: Assembly Binding redirect: How and Why?
body: <p>This is not a problem question but a general understanding question on assembly binding redirect's working.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Queries</strong></p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Why binding redirect shows only major version and not minor, build and revision numbers?</li>
  <li><p>Does old and new version change only when there is change in major version?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;dependentAssembly&gt;
      &lt;assemblyIdentity name="FooBar"  
                        publicKeyToken="32ab4ba45e0a69a1"  
                        culture="en-us" /&gt;  
  
      &lt;bindingRedirect oldVersion="7.0.0.0" newVersion="8.0.0.0" /&gt;  
  &lt;/dependentAssembly&gt;
  </code></pre></li>
  </ol>