Question

Our .Net 3.5 projects are delay signed and are registred with sn -Vr to allow debugging these assemblies on dev machines.

Recently we ported some projects to Silverlight 3.0 and found out that sn -Vr won’t allow to execute a delay signed silverlight assembly through iexplorer.

Is there a way to execute a delay signed silverlight application in iexplorer?

Fully signing on dev machines is not an option and not signing silverlight assemblies on dev machines will cause us some trouble with their strong name because we make heavy use of reflection, so we’re kind of stuck there…

Answer 1

This is “by design”, Silverlight does not support delay signed assemblies unfortunately.

I’d recommend using a separate .snk file that you generate for development use; then if you are doing code signing, you’ll need to do some additional work for official builds.