Building from source key signing

[JoshuaSmyth]

I'm getting this error when attempting to run the following command from visual studio command prompt 2010

sn -Vr *,78da2f4877323311

Microsoft (R) .NET Framework Strong Name Utility Version 4.0.30319.1 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Failed to open registry key -- Unable to format error message 00000005

[tlgkccampbell]

Run the command prompt as an administrator. I'll update the documentation.

[JoshuaSmyth]

I have managed to get the samples building and running. After running the command prompt as administrator I was no longer getting the error message, but I still could not run the samples via visual studio as it stated the strong name was failing.

Instead I used the standard command prompt (in administrator mode) Went to the following location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.1A\bin\NETFX 4.5.1 Tools\x64\

and entered sn -Vr *,78da2f4877323311

After that I could build and run the samples. Now I can look forward to playing around with Ultraviolet

PS: I am on a Win7 64bit AMD machine

[tlgkccampbell]

Thanks for taking the time to sort this out.

I'll take some time to further refine the documentation this weekend. You should have been able to do this through a Visual Studio command prompt, but you have to be sure that you're using one with the 64-bit tool paths registered (marked x64 in the image below) - there's a separate verification skipping list for 32-bit and 64-bit processes.

With Visual Studio 2013 the command prompts are a bit harder to find, but the same idea applies.

Since the samples run as 64-bit processes by default on a 64-bit operating system, they require an entry in the 64-bit verification skipping list.

[tlgkccampbell]

As of Ultraviolet 1.1.3, this step is no longer required. The assemblies will only be signed in the "Production" configuration used by the build server; building in either Debug or Release mode will produce unsigned assemblies.