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ProjectProperties->Signing vs AssemblyInfo

Sat, August 6, 2005, 05:54 AM under Whidbey | VisualStudio
This has been on my "to blog" list but, since someone else beat me to it, please go read: Visual Studio 2005 and Signing with strong name keys.

Why is there a warning against using the old way of signing in the AssemblyInfo.cs? When sharing code between Smart Device and desktop projects, we used to share the AssemblyInfo file. Now, to strong name both projects/assemblies, I need to do it via two different project properties dialogs rather than a single code file!
Note that VB projects seem more tolerant to using the AssemblyInfo.vb for this purpose.

In addition, there is another bug with Beta 2. Say you created a desktop project and added the strong name (resulting in the silly copying of the snk file to your project folder). Now you create a Smart Device project in the same folder and using *its* project properties try to add the snk file from its original location: VS2005 dies a horrible death! The workaround is to browse to the snk file that was copied in your project folder.
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