What is strong name and what is the purpose of strong name ?
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Answer / rashmi tiwari
A name that consists of an assembly's identity—its simple
text name, version number, and culture information (if
provided)—strengthened by a public key and a digital
signature generated over the assembly.
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Answer / nihar
Strong name is the identification of an assembly. To avoid
DLL heal we are using the string name. Syntex for creating
a strong name SN
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Answer / saubhagya
strong names are same as GUID in com.strong names are used
to deploy assembly in global assembly cache(GAC)
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Answer / shyam
A strong name is a reliable .NET assembly identifier,
comprised of the assembly’s simple text name, version
number, culture, public key and a digital signature. The
latter two are generated with the strong name (sn) tool,
while the remainder is part of the assemblies manifest …
usually specified in the AssemblyInfo source file.
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Answer / punish goyal
Strong name is the identification of the assembly.this
cantain's it's name,version number,Culture number.
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Answer / rajani
A strong name is a .NET assembly name combined with its
version number and other information to uniquely identify
the assembly. This allows multiple versions of the same
assembly to peacefully co-exist in the global assembly
cache, where shared assemblies are typically stored.
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Answer / gousepasha
Strong Name is a technology based on cryptographic principles, primary digital signatures
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Answer / sivakrishna.ambati
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. It is generated from an assembly file (the file that contains the assembly manifest, which in turn contains the names and hashes of all the files that make up the assembly), using the corresponding private key.
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