Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Microsoft .NET Assemblies Public Key Names

Today while using Reflector I've noticed one funny thing. It came out, that we are able to see where Microsoft keeps their PublicKey files and what are their names :-)

Few samples:

mscorlib f:\RedBits\Tools\devdiv\EcmaPublicKey.snk
System.Data.Linq f:\dd\tools\devdiv\EcmaPublicKey.snk
System.Web f:\RedBits\Tools\devdiv\FinalPublicKey.snk
Microsoft.VisualBasic f:\\RedBits\\Tools\\devdiv\\FinalPublicKey.snk

Nothing special, but... Keep this in mind when doing RTM so you don't something that shouldn't be distributed, like: CustomersIHate\Customer1\Key.snk

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:55:40 PM (Central European Standard Time, UTC+01:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  |  Related posts:
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:06:01 PM (Central European Standard Time, UTC+01:00)
LOL, I discovered the same 25 days later!!! I did so while actually using the Microsoft IL disassembler (and inspecting System.dll) And what was the first thing I did right after that? I Googled it! :D...

On a side "reflection"... this is a little voyeuristic, ain't it?
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