Auto-entering Password In Sn.exe

Question

I need to create post build event to perform the following:

sn -i MyKey.pfx MyKeyContainerName
tlbimp $(ConfigurationName)\\MyCom.tlb /out:$(ConfigurationNam         


        

Answer 1

I had this problem come up today, with a C++ DLL that I use in a ClickOnce C# app.

I set up delay signing on the DLL, then used a post-build event to run SN like so:

ECHO  | sn.exe -R $(OutDir)$(TargetFileName) $(MSBuildProjectDirectory)

Gotta love the old-school batch methods. ECHO prints your password, the pipe | pipes that output along to SN.exe, which takes the password.

You probably won't need delay signing and the -R switch like I did, but you get the idea.

EDIT: THIS PROBABLY NO LONGER WORKS - my answer was from 2013 and I was using VS2010 back then.