Question about AL

30 Aug 2006 12:34 PM

kishor

Hi all,
I have private Assemblies (many) Now I am planing to put all in GAC. for XYZ
reason. I have generated all keys for all assemblies one for each.

assembly is A.dll key is a.key

Question is
is it possible to add a key file to a DLL directly without recompiling code ?

Al has some syntax but giving me useless errors which I dont understand.

Please suggest your comments

Regards,
Kishor

30 Aug 2006 1:12 PM

Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer)

sn.exe

More details here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconDelayedSigningAssembly.asp

I would not sign each assembly with a different key, however. Keys are
designed to identify the shop that signs, not the individual dll.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

*************************************************
Think outside of the box!
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"kishor" <kis***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AFA451C8-F084-4378-8CB4-BF3E35ED33F9@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
> I have private Assemblies (many) Now I am planing to put all in GAC. for
> XYZ
> reason. I have generated all keys for all assemblies one for each.
>
> assembly is A.dll key is a.key
>
> Question is
> is it possible to add a key file to a DLL directly without recompiling
> code ?
>
> Al has some syntax but giving me useless errors which I dont understand.
>
> Please suggest your comments
>
> Regards,
> Kishor

1 Sep 2006 7:31 AM

kishor

Hi,
Thanxs for your Information.

This could be achieved, but in my case DLL is already Compiled.

and when I issue following statement I get an error

sn /Vr MG.dll

MG.dll does not represent a strongly named assembly

and

sn -R MG.dll k.key

Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Strong Name Utility Ver
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation 1998-2002. All ri..............
MG.dll does not represent a strongly named assembly

please Suggest.

Kishor

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"Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer)" wrote:

> sn.exe
>
> More details here:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconDelayedSigningAssembly.asp
>
> I would not sign each assembly with a different key, however. Keys are
> designed to identify the shop that signs, not the individual dll.
>
> --
> Gregory A. Beamer
> MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
>
> *************************************************
> Think outside of the box!
> *************************************************
> "kishor" <kis***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AFA451C8-F084-4378-8CB4-BF3E35ED33F9@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all,
> > I have private Assemblies (many) Now I am planing to put all in GAC. for
> > XYZ
> > reason. I have generated all keys for all assemblies one for each.
> >
> > assembly is A.dll key is a.key
> >
> > Question is
> > is it possible to add a key file to a DLL directly without recompiling
> > code ?
> >
> > Al has some syntax but giving me useless errors which I dont understand.
> >
> > Please suggest your comments
> >
> > Regards,
> > Kishor
>
>
>