Azure DevOps release pipeline - How to resolve Strong Name Validation issue

Question

I have a C# exe which is referring to some other dlls and the dlls are signed using a strong name key. It works fine when I execute this in my local system. But when I call the same exe from Azure release pipeline, it is giving me the below error.

System.Security.SecurityException: Strong name validation failed. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8013141A)

I tried sn.exe -Vr "dll path" for all the referred dlls. And also tried the command bypassTrustedAppStrongNames enabled="false" & "true" within the exe's app.config. But both didn't help.

Can anyone please suggest a solution for this. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can try to search for System.Management.Automation reference in the csproj file and replace that with <Reference Include="System.Management.Automation" />

For this,please refer to this case with similar issue.

Answer 2

You can try to disable the strong name validation in an application level by adding the following snippet in an Application Configuration File

<configuration>  
  <runtime>  
    <bypassTrustedAppStrongNames enabled="true" />  
  </runtime>  
</configuration>  

For more info you can take a look in Microsoft documentation page

Answer 3

I'm not sure you will have permissions to skip validation on a hosted agent. So you can either make your own agent or

• Remove the strong name of the dependencies or rebuild them with no strong name.
• Sign your application.