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How to find public key token for a .NET DLL or assembly

March 22nd, 2011 Comments off

I had to find the public key token for a strongly named assembly in .NET. Searching for a solution, I came along Wriju’s Blog. It appears the answer is very simple: use the .NET Framework tool ‘sn.exe’. Since I do not want to forget about this one, here it is:

  1. Open the Visual Studio <version reflecting DLL creator/signer> Command Prompt
  2. Point to the dll’s folder you want to get the public key
  3. Use the following command: sn –T myDLL.dll

How to find public key token for a .NET DLL or assembly sn exe in action

This will give you the public key token. Of course this only works if the assembly is strongly signed How to find public key token for a .NET DLL or assembly icon smile .

Categories: .NET, tip

ILMerge and .NET 4.0 projects – Unresolved assembly reference not allowed…

February 16th, 2011 Comments off

For plugin development on an ASP.NET website (using  MEF), I am trying to use ILMerge to merge all .NET assemblies in one assembly. I used a blog post from Scott Hanselman on ILMerge for a starter, but although I followed every step in his post, I ran into the following exception: Unresolved assembly reference not allowed: System.<WhatSoEver>. After  a little investigation, I discovered that ILMerge by default does not understand how to merge projects using the .NET 4.0 framework.

Adding an ILMerge.exe.config file with the following piece of code in it solved my problems:

<configuration>
  <startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
    <requiredRuntime safemode="true" imageVersion="v4.0.30319" version="v4.0.30319"/>
  </startup>
</configuration>

This was able to successfully resolve my issue.

Categories: .NET, ilmerge, visual studio 2010

Threading in C# – complete reference

February 14th, 2011 Comments off

A colleague of mine just showed a great complete reference for threaded programming in C#. Since the article is great, I would like to share this one with the world. Here it is: http://www.albahari.com/threading/.

Cheers!

Categories: .NET, threading

Red-Gate’s Reflector to be paid for – free alternatives?

February 14th, 2011 4 comments

Hi folks,

I recently discoverd that by the end of February 2011 Red-Gate stops providing Reflector for free. Although their reason sounds obvious (they cannot work for free), I think many developers still rather prefer a free IL deassembler tool. Luckily, Scott Hanselman twittered about free open source alternatives. Those open source alternative IL deassembler projects are both based on the Mono Cecil project.

I would hereby like to share them with you:

Happy coding! Cheers!

PS. Of course I am very much interested in other free alternatives. Please post your comments if any Red Gates Reflector to be paid for free alternatives? icon wink …

UPDATE 04/27/2011: On Twitter I heard @dotnetreflector say to @haacked that they are releasing Reflector v6 with no expiry date for existing users in May 2011! http://bit.ly/eW3D7O.

Categories: .NET, disassembler, open source, reflection, visual studio 2010, wpf

WIX 3.5 – error LGHT0001: Unable to load DLL ‘winterop.dll’

August 25th, 2010 Comments off

It has been a while, but here I am again WIX 3.5 error LGHT0001: Unable to load DLL winterop.dll icon wink … I am currently working on an old Visual Studio 2005 solution. This bugger used to be built by a build server, but that one died about a year ago. Since some bugs really needed fixing, I decided that I would build the project myself for the moment.

Problem was that the solution uses WIX 3.0, and I have WIX 3.5 installed on my machine. After converting the WIX projects I expected the project to build without any problems. Unfortunately, however, WIX crashes with the following error: error LGHT0001: Unable to load DLL ‘winterop.dll’: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E).

After some searching on the web I found a post (not entirely my problem) with the searched solution: add the installation path of WIX to the Path variable. After this workaround everything works like a charm. Hope this helps you too WIX 3.5 error LGHT0001: Unable to load DLL winterop.dll icon wink !

Happy coding!

Categories: .NET, bug, tip, visual studio, WIX