How to fix “Referenced assembly does not have a strong name” error?

Sometimes you got an error like following when you reference 3rd party dlls.

Assembly generation failed -- Referenced assembly 'Test' does not have a strong name

Cause is An assembly is not signed with a strong name, the strong name could not be verified, or the strong name would not be valid without the current registry settings of the compute.

The strong name protects clients from unknowingly loading an assembly that has been tampered with. Assemblies without strong names should not be deployed outside of very limited scenarios.

An assembly without a strong name cannot be loaded into the global assembly cache.
To Fix this, have to follow below steps.

Steps to create strong named assembly

Step 1 : Run visual studio command prompt and go to directory where your DLL located.

For Example my DLL located in D:/ziad/Test.dll

Step 2 : Now create il file using below command.

  D:/ziad> ildasm /all /out=Test.il Test.dll
(this command generate code library)

Step 3 : Generate new Key for sign your project.

  D:/ziad> sn -k mykey.snk

Step 4 : Now sign your library using ilasm command.

  D:/ziad> ilasm /dll /key=mykey.snk Test.il

so after this step your assembly contains strong name and signed.

just add reference this new assembly in your project and compile project its running now.

Note : After running you application , if you faced below error you have to register DLL in GAC(Global Assembley Cache)

Could not load file or assembly 'XXXX' Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8ab6c29bacc3af9f' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified

How to call an ASP.NET c# method using javascript

PageMethod an easier and faster approach for Asp.Net AJAX We can easily improve user experience and performance of web applications by unleashing the power of AJAX. One of the best things which I like in AJAX is PageMethod.

PageMethod is a way through which we can expose server side page's method in java script. This brings so many opportunities we can perform lots of operations without using slow and annoying post backs.

In this post I am showing the basic use of ScriptManager and PageMethod. In this example I am creating a User Registration form, in which user can register against his email address and password. Here is the markup of the page which I am going to develop:-

<body>

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

    <div>

        <fieldset style="width: 200px;">

            <asp:Label ID="lblEmailAddress" runat="server" Text="Email Address"></asp:Label>

            <asp:TextBox ID="txtEmail" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

            <asp:Label ID="lblPassword" runat="server" Text="Password"></asp:Label>

            <asp:TextBox ID="txtPassword" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

        </fieldset>

        <div>

        </div>

        <asp:Button ID="btnCreateAccount" runat="server" Text="Signup" />

    </div>

    </form>

</body>

</html>

To setup page method, first you have to drag a script manager on your page.

<asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" EnablePageMethods="true">

</asp:ScriptManager>

Also notice that I have changed EnablePageMethods="true. This will tell ScriptManager that I am going to call Page Methods from client side.

Now Next step is to Create a Server Side function. Here is the function which I created, this function validates user's input:-

[WebMethod]

public static string RegisterUser(string email, string password)

{

    string result = "Congratulations!!! your account has been created.";

    if (email.Length == 0)//Zero length check

    {

        result = "Email Address cannot be blank";

    }

    else if (!email.Contains(".") || !email.Contains("@")) //some other basic checks

    {

        result = "Not a valid email address";

    }

    else if (!email.Contains(".") || !email.Contains("@")) //some other basic checks

    {

        result = "Not a valid email address";

    }

    else if (password.Length == 0)

    {

        result = "Password cannot be blank";

    }

    else if (password.Length < 5)

    {

        result = "Password canonot be less than 5 chars";

    }

    return result;

}

To tell script manager that this method is accessible through javascript we need to ensure two things. First this method should be 'public static'. Second there should be a [WebMethod] tag above method as written in above code.

Now I have created server side function which creates account. Now we have to call it from client side. Here is how we can call that function from client side:-

<script type="text/javascript">

    function Signup() {

        var email = document.getElementById('<%=txtEmail.ClientID %>').value;

        var password = document.getElementById('<%=txtPassword.ClientID %>').value;

        PageMethods.RegisterUser(email, password, onSucess, onError);

        function onSucess(result) {

            alert(result);

        }

        function onError(result) {

            alert('Cannot process your request at the moment, please try later.');

        }

    }

</script>

To call my server side method Register user, ScriptManager generates a proxy function which is available in PageMethods. My server side function has two paramaters i.e. email and password, after that parameters we have to give two more function names which will be run if method is successfully executed (first parameter i.e. onSucess) or method is failed (second parameter i.e. result).

Now every thing seems ready, and now I have added OnClientClick="Signup();return false;" on my Signup button. So here complete code of my aspx page :-

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head runat="server">

    <title></title>

</head>

<body>

    <form id="form1" runat="server">

    <div>

        <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server" EnablePageMethods="true">

        </asp:ScriptManager>

        <fieldset style="width: 200px;">

            <asp:Label ID="lblEmailAddress" runat="server" Text="Email Address"></asp:Label>

            <asp:TextBox ID="txtEmail" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

            <asp:Label ID="lblPassword" runat="server" Text="Password"></asp:Label>

            <asp:TextBox ID="txtPassword" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>

        </fieldset>

        <div>

        </div>

        <asp:Button ID="btnCreateAccount" runat="server" Text="Signup" OnClientClick="Signup();return false;" />

    </div>

    </form>

</body>

</html>

<script type="text/javascript">

    function Signup() {

        var email = document.getElementById('<%=txtEmail.ClientID %>').value;

       var password = document.getElementById('<%=txtPassword.ClientID %>').value;

        PageMethods.RegisterUser(email, password, onSucess, onError);

        function onSucess(result) {

            alert(result);

        }

        function onError(result) {

            alert('Cannot process your request at the moment, please try later.');

        }

    }

</script>

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