WPF Prism Assembly StrongNaming.

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WPF Prism Assembly StrongNaming.

I am trying to strong name my WPF assemblies to add to the GAC. I have references to the to the prim assemblies in my project and the compilation fails with

Error 1 Assembly generation failed -- Referenced assembly 'Microsoft.Practices.Composite.Presentation' does not have a strong name

What am I missing? I do understand what is happening here but I dont think its a good idea to sign the prism assemblies myself. What does everyone else do in such (or similar) situations?

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I'm not up to speed with Prism, but is this a release version?

Anyway, if the authors didn't strong-name their assemblies they did not intend their assemblies and derived ones to be put in the GAC.

And maybe you should just re-think that decision, the GAC should be used very rarely.

Henk Holterman 2010-08-21 21:15:36

*To Add to this: Unless you are installing multiple applications on the client that use the same libraries, don't touch the GAC, no need.

Tom Anderson 2010-08-21 21:24:02

@Henk The way it works there are certain assemblies in Prism that need to be built from source(which are unsigned). I am guessing 90% of the audience is not going to modify the source and use the library as is if only to avoid maintainence hassel. So I think there should be MS signed versions in the first place. But since they are not I am stuck with either dropping GAC'ing or signing them myself(the latter very surprisingly seems to be the general recommendation on MSDN)

NVM 2010-08-21 22:37:12

@Tom. The app is likely to be called from multiple applications in a suite so GAC'ing is indeed a necessity.

NVM 2010-08-21 22:38:56

NVM, using it in multiple apps does _not_ necessitate the GAC. You only need the GAC when your lib is going to have its own independent release cycle with publisher policies. Otherwise, just install multiple copies.

Henk Holterman 2010-08-22 09:18:53

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