What is a "STRONG NAME" in .NET?

c# .net strongname
John picture John · Jun 6, 2010 · Viewed 46.4k times · Source

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What is strong naming and how do I strong name a binary?

Actually, yesterday I attended an interview. There they asked me 1 question about strong name. I was not able to guess what it is? please explain about this. Thanks.

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Mark Byers picture Mark Byers · Jun 6, 2010

From MSDN:

A strong name consists of the assembly's identity — its simple text name, version number, and culture information (if provided) — plus a public key and a digital signature.

You can use strong naming to ensure that when you load a DLL you get exactly the DLL you were expecting and not some other DLL that happens to have the same name.

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