How to always produce byte-for-byte identical .exe on rebuild of C# application?

Question

I\'ll give you a little bit of background first as to why I\'m asking this question:

I am currently working in a stricly-regulated industry and as such our code is quite

Answer 1

You said that after a few project tweaks you were able to get C++ apps to compile repeatably to the same SHA1/MD5 values. I'm in the same boat as you in being in an industry with a third party test lab that needs to rebuild exactly the same executables repeatably.

In researching how to make this happen in VS2005, I came across your post here. Could you share the project tweaks you did to make the C++ apps build to the same SHA1/MD5 values consistently? It would be of great help to myself and perhaps any others that share this requirement.