Gotchas: SN.EXE problem on Vista fixed in VS 2008!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 – 10:58 am

Back in September I ran into some issues using SN.EXE on Vista. SN would look like it had added a strong name verification skipping entry when really it hadn’t.

Doing the SN -Vr *,######### with the SN.EXE tool that ships with Visual Studio 2008 gives a much better behavior.

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Now you get the error “Failed to open registry key — access denied”. Running the same command from a command prompt running with Administrator privileges works fine. All is right with the World.

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  1. 2 Responses to “Gotchas: SN.EXE problem on Vista fixed in VS 2008!”

  2. Hello,
    Yneed to run VS2008 Command Prompt run as Administrator.

    By ilker sahin on Feb 25, 2009

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