Working with Strong Names
We have previously discussed strong names and their uses (see Chapter 9, “Understanding the Concepts of Strong Naming Assembles”), and now it's time to look at the nitty-gritty details of actually applying them to your project. There are several aspects to this:
Creation of a public/private key pair
Adding the strong name to your assemblies
Optionally full signing or re-signing assemblies during the latter stages of building/creating setup kits
Managing keys within your development environment
We'll cover these topics in detail in the following sections.
Strong Name Key Pair Generation
Strong names are based on the use of a public/private key pair. The public key provides a well known identity (roughly corresponding to ...
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