August 26, 2011

Error CS1577: Assembly generation failed

VS 2010 (including SP1) has a bug that prevents the signing of managed CPP dlls.
The error you get:
error CS1577: Assembly generation failed -- Referenced assembly 'XYZ' does not have a strong name
The following link has details on error & workaround.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2011/03/11/10140139.aspx