Assembly using COM Interop stubs can't be registered in the GAC

[Angelos Karantzalis]

I've built an Assembly to wrap around a COM component. However, I need to
add it to the GAC.

Upon trying to do that, I'm trying to give the assembly a strong name, which
fails because the com interop generated assembly it uses doesn't have a
strong name :?

Can I sign the interop assembly with some cmd-prompt tool ? or, is there
another way to achieve what i want ?

Cheers,
Angel
O:]

 

[Carlos J. Quintero [.NET MVP]]

You can sign assemblies with the sn.exe command-line .NET utility.

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[Sunny]

I've built an Assembly to wrap around a COM component. However, I need to
add it to the GAC.

Upon trying to do that, I'm trying to give the assembly a strong name, which
fails because the com interop generated assembly it uses doesn't have a
strong name :?

Can I sign the interop assembly with some cmd-prompt tool ? or, is there
another way to achieve what i want ?

Cheers,
Angel
O:]

Under VS.Net 2003, open the property pages of the project. In the
General tab there is wrapper key filename. Put there the path to your
keyfile. Then, when you add a reference, the IDE will create a signed
wrapper.

Cheers
Sunny

 

[Angelos Karantzalis]

Sunny, thank you very much for the reply. I would've used the properties
page for ever without ever noticing that :] it worked like a charm, thanks.

Cheers,
Angel
O:]

I've built an Assembly to wrap around a COM component. However, I need to
add it to the GAC.

Upon trying to do that, I'm trying to give the assembly a strong name, which
fails because the com interop generated assembly it uses doesn't have a
strong name :?

Can I sign the interop assembly with some cmd-prompt tool ? or, is there
another way to achieve what i want ?

Cheers,
Angel
O:]

Under VS.Net 2003, open the property pages of the project. In the
General tab there is wrapper key filename. Put there the path to your
keyfile. Then, when you add a reference, the IDE will create a signed
wrapper.

Cheers
Sunny