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Signing assemblies with a key container

Posted by NChris on

This article is a reference for me since I have to look it up all the time.

Since .NET 1.0 I prefer to sign my assemblies and to use a key container with a AssemblyKeyNameAttribute instead of having to define the path of a key file in each assembly:

[assembly: AssemblyKeyName("myKeyName")]

Starting with .NET 2.0/Visual Studio 2005 this generates the compiler warning CS1699 (or an unnumbered warning for VB.NET). For my projects I always enable "Treat warnings as errors". For C# I can add 1699 to the suppressed warnings in the project settings, but I can't find a way to suppress the warning in the VB.NET project settings.

Instead I have to edit the .vbproj-file with a text editor and add somewhere in the first PropertyGroup element the line

<KeyContainerName>myKeyName</KeyContainerName>

Unfortunately Microsoft didn't add a project setting to use assembly key containers.

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