Strong-Named Assemblies and the Global Assembly Cache
Two main requirements for a control must be satisfied before that control can be used within other applications. The first requirement is that the assembly must be a strong-named assembly. A strong-named assembly is an assembly that has been associated with certain attributes that describe the assembly and has also been associated with a public key and digital signature. By you associating an assembly with a public key and digital signature, the assembly is guaranteed to be unique because no other assembly can generate the same key for an assembly. Although we won't get into the details and various implementation specifics of strong-named assemblies, you will be shown how to create a strong-named ...
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