How to get the strong name of your assembly by adding an External Tool?

Introduction

• For a client, we were developing SharePoint 2019 Web API. For that we were following below post:
  https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/create-asmx-service-for-sharepoint/
  
  
• In that we needed to set up strong assembly name. The link was dead. So I thought I should write this blog. 

Solution

This tip will make it easy for you to get that assembly name right within Visual Studio.

• In Visual Studio, Go to Tools –>  External Tools.

• Click on “Add” to add a tool, and put in the following values:
• Title: Strong Name
• Command: Powershell.exe
• Arguments: -command "[System.Reflection.AssemblyName]::GetAssemblyName(\"$(TargetPath)\").FullName"
• Check “Use Output Window”
• Uncheck everything else – here’s how it should look -

  

• Right Click on your solution and Clean Your Project solution.

 

• Now, Right Click on your solution and build Your Project solution.

 

• That’s it, now in your project, Visit Tools –> Strong Name, and in the output window, it will give you the assembly name like this –>

 ProjectName, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=e3d610b32dbba675  

 

Please let me know if you face any issues.