Signing assemblies

[Janiek Buysrogge]

Hi,

In my ActiveX component, which is written in .NET, I use a couple of
GUI libraries I found on the net, with nicer group boxes and buttons.

For using .NET assemblies as ActiveX components you must register them
for COM and then add them to the GAC (I'm sure many people know this)

I can sign my own assemblies before I add them with gacutil, but what
about these dll's I don't have the source of ? I can't sign these and
GAC only accepts strong named dll's.

Any advice is welcome,

JB

 

[Brian Gideon]

JB,

You can use the IL round tripping technique.

ildasm yourassembly.dll /out=yourassembly.il
ilasm yourassembly.il /res=yourassembly.res /key=yourkey.snk /dll

Basically what's happening is you decompile the assembly to an IL
source file using ildasm then you recompile with ilasm while also
specifying a key file.

Brian

 

[Noah Sham]

So what your saying is that if I have someones assembly that is not strongly
named I can just disassemble the exe/dll and reassemble with my own key?

 

[Brian Gideon]

Noah,

Yes. That's what I'm saying.

Brian