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Assembly generation failed — Referenced assembly does not have a strong name

Posted by scmay on July 17, 2008

Generate a snk key

Link here : http://forums.asp.net/t/1060132.aspx

First, you need to create a Public/Private Key Pair.
Choose >Start, >Programs, >Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, >Visual Studio Tools, >Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt.
Enter the following at the command prompt and then press Enter…
sn -k C:\Temp\sgKey.snk
Now the key pair is created.

Basically, you have to disassemble and reassemble

Found this here http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/clr/thread/35930958-9775-4e56-bd38-0362d124ffc4/

Solution of the assigning the strong name to the third part DLL by using following command on visual studio command prompt.

E.g. Lets say the name of the third party DLL is myTest.dll.
Step 1: Dis-assemble the assembly
ildasm myTest.dll /out:myTest.il

Step 2: Re-Assemble using your strong-name key
ilasm myTest.il /res:myTest.res /dll /key:myTest.snk /out:myTestSN.dll

This code work perfectly to assign strong name.

for verification you can use following command,
sn -vf myTestSN.dll

From
Nimit Patel
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8 Responses to “Assembly generation failed — Referenced assembly does not have a strong name”

  1. Naresh Gupta said

    September 23, 2008 at 6:35 pm

    This is not working for me, while using Ilasm I am getting failure messages and in the end ** FAILURE **, what I am doing wrong?

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  2. scmay said

    September 23, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    What kind of failure messages?

    Reply

  3. How to Get Six Pack Fast said

    April 15, 2009 at 2:44 pm

    After reading through the article, I feel that I really need more information on the topic. Can you share some resources please?

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  4. scmay said

    April 15, 2009 at 10:34 pm

    I am not exactly sure what information are you looking for. Do you want resources on snk, or other types of solution to the topic error that you are getting, or generating public/private snk keys?

    Reply

  5. Bhagwan Bharose said

    May 20, 2010 at 10:41 am

    @Naresh,
    It may be due to your dll is read only.
    Remove it and try….

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  6. Kerem said

    June 18, 2010 at 6:32 am

    It works! Thanks,

    For the failure message like the Naresh saw, you just have to give the full path of the key file Previously generated to the assemble command.

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  7. Sa Mo Hung said

    June 22, 2010 at 10:30 am

    yes it works. thanks!

    Reply

  8. Abhishek Patel said

    November 1, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    Thanks, It works for me … 🙂

    -Abhishek Patel

    Reply

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