Visual Studio 2010 Assembly Signing: An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist

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Fiacc picture Fiacc · May 4, 2010 · Viewed 9.1k times · Source

I'm trying to sign an assembly in Visual Studio 2010 with our PFX file, after I enter the password for the private key I get "An attempt was made to reference a token that does not exist"

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Josh M. picture Josh M. · Oct 29, 2012

Running Visual Studio as Administrator fixed this issue for me.

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