How to Get the Public Key from a Strongly Named Assembly

Hey folks………

if you need to get the public key from a strongly named assembly using the VS IDE not the command line tools……….check this cool tip from Andrew Connell…….

http://www.andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2006/09/15/4587.aspx

The tip works for all the editions(2003, 2005 and 2008)…..only the path to the sn.exe varies from .net 2.0 to .net 3.5

In .NET 2.0:
<drive>\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\bin\sn.exe
If you have .NET 3.0 or .NET 3.5 installed it is under:
<drive>\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\sn.exe

Code Security, Cross Site Scripting And Code Analysis

If you are interested in Secure Coding, Cross Site Scripting and Code Analysis aka FxCop style development……

MSFT recently released the updated versions of the Anti-XSS library and Analysis tools…..

Check the link below for more info:

http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx

Microsoft Web Platform Installer

For all the frustrated users……digging/googling for the MSFT web platform tools stack………..

Microsoft just released the RC  for the Web Platform Installer, the one stop installer for web platform(.NET 2.0 and up)

Please check the link below for more details:

http://www.microsoft.com/web/channel/products/WebPlatformInstaller.aspx

Also it supports windows XP, and the server line……..sweeet!!!!