In .NET platform, a strong name consists of the assembly's identity—its simple text name, version number, and culture information (if provided)—plus a public key and a digital signature. It is generated from an assembly file (the file that contains the assembly manifest, which in turn contains the names and hashes of all the files that make up the assembly), using the corresponding private key.
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How can I retrieve the Strong Key of a assembly
How do I retrieve the Strong Key of an assembly using C#? Is there a method that will work for .Net and non-.Net assemblies. I've just received a request to uniquely identify assemblies across a number of systems.

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VS2010 designer Could not find type UserControl, strong name assembly with manifest and delayed signing
I get this when trying to open a winforms form.
Could not find type 'MyCompany.MyControls.MyControl'. Please make sure that the assembly that contains this type is
referenced. If this type is a part of your development project, make
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What to consider when strong name signing a managed application?
I want to strong name a managed application which references many managed assemblies and ActiveX and COM components (written in C++) via interop. And because a strongly named assembly cannot reference weakly named assemblies, could you please tell…

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.NET - providing sign certificate with 3rd party libraries
I want sell some .NET library and I want provide "edition" with full source code.
Should I provide the sign certificate with the source code or should users-developers sign it with their own?

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Is Strong Name necessary in Sharepoint to use a WebPart?
I have created a webpart and want to deploy that in Sharepoint. I want to deploy the web part in bin.
I have not created a strong name for dll (webpart code). Is strong name a must for deploying webpart in bin folder?
I have referred this msdn link…

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Error when typecasting a plugin instance in a signed assembly
I'm developing an application with plugins. I have a separate API assembly with all the API interfaces.
The main application dynamically loads the plugins from dlls:
object pi = Assembly.LoadFrom(plugin.AssemblyPath)
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Two Strong name key's handling in C# project through
I have arround 40 project in single solution(VS2010). Now I have created one Strong Name Key(SNK) and added each project and refered SNK file.
Now, my requirement is , Two SNK file I have to create and keep it one place(root folder). That file I…

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Couchbase not working on production server
I am using Couchbase client inside my asp.net web mvc project (i downloaded the dll files from here)
I have a Couchbase Server installed on Windows Server 2012 x64.
When developing the project, everything works as expected. When i publish the…

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SharePoint 2010: Setting up a local dev environment from production data - Could not load file or assembly due to invalid PublicKeyToken
I have tried multiple ways to get the production SharePoint content to my newly installed local development environment that is running on a VM Windows Server 2008 R2. After an export of the farm and a restore failed I came across this blog post…

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A strongly named assembly is required sporadic file not found when binding
Our asp.net web servers are giving occasional binding problems which result in a page not being displayed to the end user. Pressing refresh usually works.
If you look in the event log you get the following entry:
Exception information:
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Strongly named / signed Berkelium-Sharp assembly
I need to use Berkelium-Sharp from signed code. Does anyone know where I could download a strongly named assembly?
Is there anyone reading this that is currently compiling Berkelium-Sharp successfully and could compile a strongly named dll for…

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StrongNameSignatureVerification access violation
I have an .NET executable assembly which references an unmanaged C++ dll through P/invoke.
After strong name signing the .net asembly I am getting Access violations at some random points when accessing the unmanaged dll. Then I recompilled the…

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Is the GAC checked before the file system for non "strong named" assembly references?
Given
we have a reference to a not strong named assembly
a non strong named version of that existing in the bin directory of an app.
a strong named version of that assembly with same version number installed in the GAC
When that assembly is…

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Signing an Unsigned dll changes dll behavior
I'm not sure what to ask exactly because i'm not sure exactly whats the problem. I have a project that needs all its assembly files to be signed and i have a 3rd party assembly that's unsigned. I'm using the ilasm and ildasm like case 2 in this…

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How to tell visual studio not needing the third party assembly to be signed?
I have a website with one class library which have been strongly signed.
I'd need to use a third party .dll which hasn't been signed and I don't have access to its source code to sign it.
How would that be possible that I tell visual studio not…

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