Signing VB app

[mark19632]

Hi Guys,

I've created a small VB app that I want to run from a network drive, however it hangs when running. I think this is due to it not being signed.

Is there a way to sign the code to make it trusted on my local machine? I've tried the Visual Basic Express help, but can;t find anything?

Thanks,

Mark

[moogle]

Don't you have to pay for signing? I'd like to know about this too

[TheAnimus]

Ah so this is VB.Net.

Basically with .Net microsoft decided that anything on a network, would quite rightly run with internet level permissions only. So in your case not run.

What you need to do is to allow it to run by changing the machines config. Or just by copying it your local PC.

If you want to be able to run code you right anywhere on your company PCs you ideally want to sign it as you said, this is very easy to do because your not "buying" a signature from Verisign or similar, infact your just generating a public and a private key.

Once you've signed it (i don't know if/how you can do this with the Express ide, so command line instructions) using "sn" which is found in the SDK files. You then add the key to your FullTrust local machine using CasPol which is found in the .Net 2.0 runtime folder.

For more info on strong names:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/securi...Explained.aspx

more info on caspol:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...tz(VS.80).aspx

If you cba to sign all the code, and just want to trust a network share (this is a security risk and bad imo):
http://blogs.msdn.com/shawnfa/archiv...30/344554.aspx

[mark19632]

Thanks for the info, it is for internal use so the CA here will sign it.

I'll have a read though all that and see how it goes.

Mark