How to register a non-strong-name assembly to be loaded as if it were in the GAC?

Question

One of our partners provided us with an assembly we need to access from our application. Unfortunately, this is not strong-name so we can\'t install it to the GAC. And we ca

Answer 1

Workaround using decompilation & signing (using Developer Command prompt for Visual studio):

ildasm.exe /all /typelist /out=DataSystem.il DataSystem.dll
ilasm.exe /dll /optimize /key=DataSystem.snk DataSystem.il

DataSystem.snk can be generated as a file using Visual Studio IDE http://www.bloggedbychris.com/2011/09/29/signing-a-net-assembly-in-visual-studio/

then you should be able to run

gacutil.exe -i DataSystem.dll