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At work today where we support an SDK (.net one) someone asked if the C# SDK was a &quot;signed&quot; .NET SDK. <br />
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I wasn't 100% sure what they were talking about but I thought this was on the right track:<br />
<a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/app-domains/how-to-sign-an-assembly-with-a-strong-name" rel="ugc">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/app-domains/how-to-sign-an-assembly-with-a-strong-name</a><br />
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Can someone explain to me what this is about and why they would need it? And also how difficult would it be to turn my unsigned SDK into a signed SDK?<br />
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Thank you
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At work today where we support an SDK (.net one) someone asked if the C# SDK was a "signed" .NET SDK. 

I wasn't 100% sure what they were talking about but I thought this was on the right track:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/app-domains/how-to-sign-an-assembly-with-a-strong-name

Can someone explain to me what this is about and why they would need it? And also how difficult would it be to turn my unsigned SDK into a signed SDK?

Thank you

What is a .NET signed assembly? What is it good for, and how hard is it to do this?

The .NET Framework is not specific to any one programming language; rather, it includes a library of functions that allows developers to rapidly build applications. Several supported languages include C#, VB.NET, C++ or ASP.NET.

.NET Programming

C# is an object-oriented programming language created in conjunction with Microsoft’s .NET framework. Compilation is usually done into the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), which is then JIT-compiled to native code (and cached) during execution in the Common Language Runtime (CLR).

An assembly language (or assembler language) is a low-level programming language for a computer or other programmable device in which there is a very strong (generally one-to-one) correspondence between the language and the architecture's machine code instructions. Each assembly language is specific to a particular computer architecture, in contrast to most high-level programming languages, which are generally portable across multiple architectures, but require interpreting or compiling. Assembly language is converted into executable machine code by a utility program referred to as an assembler; the conversion process is referred to as assembly, or assembling the code.