I want to debug NHibernate, so I added NHibernate to my project to my solution in Visual Studio.
But when I build my solution, I get the error: 'Cryptographic failure while signing assembly 'E:NHibernate\NHibernate\src\NHibernate\obj\Debug\NHibernate.dll' -- 'Error reading key file '..\NHibernate.snk' -- The system cannot find the file specified. '

How do I debug NHibernate?

Comment out the line with the snk in AssemblyInfo.cs, the key is not included in the package.

Thanks Sergey, it works fine now.

alternatively, you could use the .NET strong naming tool and generate your own keypair:
sn -k NHibernate.snk

(the location of sn.exe (VS.NET binary folder) needs to be in the path.

then copy it to the correct place (one level above the NHibernate project) or change the AssemblyInfo.cs file.

cheers

It probably is not a question for Hibernate, but I will ask it anyway, because I do not understand!
Surda-Borivoje Surdilovic once said "Ko pita ne skita".

In a class AssemblyInfo
there is a line:
[assembly: AssemblyKeyFileAttribute("..\\NHibernate.snk")]

Now: of course I do not have a file like this on a disk so the code will not compile. So I delete this line and everything is OK.
Now, I am thinking, may be I should not delete it, but then WHY? And what must I do?

I read help and it says:
AssemblyKeyFileAttribute
Specifies the name of a file containing the key pair used to generate a strong name.

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND that...What is the benefit, purpose, what is the story behind it?

Thank you very much for the kind answer:)

Lp
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