What is strong name? How to create it?

Anand SA

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Rajanikant Hawaldar4y ago
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Hello Anand,

In Microsoft.Net a strong name consists of the assembly's identity. The strong name guarantees the integrity of the assembly. Strong Name includes the name of the .net assembly, version number, culture identity, and a public key token. It is generated from an assembly file using the corresponding private key.

Steps to create strong named assembly:
To create a strong named assembly you need to have a key pair (public key and a private key) file.
Use sn -k KeyFile.snk
Open the dot net project to be complied as a strong named assembly. Open AssembyInfo.cs file.
Add the following lines to AssemblyInfo file.
[Assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]
[assembly: AssemblyDelaySign(false)]
[assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("..\\..\\KeyFile.snk")]
Compile the application, we have created a strong named assembly.

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Naresh Beniwal3y ago
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/8874/Strong-Names-Explained
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Uday Dodiya4y ago
Basically a strong name is a container which consists of assembly’s information. For example, it contains the name of the assembly, culture information, version number, public key, and digital signature. It can be generated using developer tools like visual studio command prompt from an assembly file.
The strong names are unique (and yeah it must be). By creating an assembly with strong names you can make sure that the name is globally unique. You can find some more information about strong names here.
Refer Following For More Info
https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/65794e/creating-strong-names-using-visual-studio-command-prompt/
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Vishal Yelve4y ago
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 using the corresponding private key.

Please refer below link.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/assembly/create-use-strong-named
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