signed-assembly

Why are signed assemblies slow to load?

I encountered a strange problem this week that I can't explain: I switched my application to use the signed version of some third party assemblies (Xceed Grid and some of their other components) and the application start time went into the toilet. Each time the application loaded a signed assembly, it took 30 seconds to load. Applicati...

Signed assembly dependency that references a COM DLL must have the dependency's generated interop assembly referenced

Sorry about the terrible title. I have a signed assembly 'Signed.dll' that is a dependency of another assembly, say Executable.exe. Signed.dll references a COM DLL and publically exposes one of this COM DLL's types: 'ComPublicT.' Executable.exe must reference the automatically generated Interop.COM.dll from the Signed project, rather ...

c# - can you make a "weak" assembly reference to a strong named assembly

For various reasons i would rather not use strong named (signed) assemblies in my project. however, one of the projects is referenced by a sharepoint web part which means it must be signed. is it possible to have this assembly signed but when I reference it from other projects, to do so using a non-strong reference. this would give me t...