Using ELMAH with ASP.NET MVC in VB: Compiling: Elmah does not have a strong name

Question

I've read through the posts and code for passing ASP.NET MVC HandleError errors to ELMAH and converted the code to VB:

Imports System
Imports System.Web
Imports System.Web.Mvc
Imports Elmah

Public Class HandleErrorAttribute
    Inherits System.Web.Mvc.HandleErrorAttribute
    Public Overrides Sub OnException(ByVal context As ExceptionContext)

        MyBase.OnException(context)

        Dim e As Exception = context.Exception
        If Not context.ExceptionHandled OrElse RaiseErrorSignal(e) OrElse IsFiltered(context) Then
            ' if unhandled, will be logged anyhow
            'prefer signaling, if possible
            'filtered?
        Else
            LogException(e)
        End If
    End Sub

    Private Function RaiseErrorSignal(ByVal e As Exception) As Boolean
        Dim context = HttpContext.Current
        If context Is Nothing Then Return False

        Dim signal = ErrorSignal.FromContext(context)
        If signal Is Nothing Then Return False

        signal.Raise(e, context)
        Return True
    End Function

    Private Function IsFiltered(ByVal context As ExceptionContext) As Boolean
        Dim config As ErrorFilterConfiguration = context.HttpContext.GetSection("elmah/errorFilter")

        If config Is Nothing Then Return False

        Dim testContext = New ErrorFilterModule.AssertionHelperContext(context.Exception, HttpContext.Current)

        Return config.Assertion.Test(testContext)
    End Function

    Private Sub LogException(ByVal e As Exception)

        Dim context = HttpContext.Current
        ErrorLog.GetDefault(context).Log(New Elmah.Error(e, context))
    End Sub

End Class

However, I noticed that when I try to compile the code, I get the following error from VS2008:

Error  3 Unable to emit assembly: Referenced assembly 'Elmah' does not have a strong name Main

Right now, HandleErrorAttribute.vb lives in [folder with the SLN file]\Main\HandleErrorAttribute.vb and the Views, Controllers, and so on are all under the Main folder. If you were able to get the original C# code to work, how did you get around the compile-time error? (and, if you got it to work in VB, that's even better) **Edit** I've already tried signing it with sn.exe:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC>sn -R "C:\Documents and Settings
\zchoy\My Documents\Burrow\Code\Main\lib\Elmah.dll" "C:\documents and settings\z
choy\my documents\burrow\code\code signing key.pfx"

Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Strong Name Utility  Version 3.5.30729.1
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Documents and Settings\zchoy\My Documents\Burrow\Code\Main\lib\Elmah.dll does
 not represent a strongly named assembly

Clearly unhelpful.

Answer 1

Looks like you need to sign the Elmah assembly so that it has a strong name.

Answer 2

When I had this problem, I downloaded the ELMAH source code and opened it up in Visual Studio. Then I used the Signing tab on the project properties to sign the assembly, then compiled my own version of Elmah.dll.

Then I linked this signed version into my main project.