Why am I getting 'Assembly '*.dll' must be strong signed in order to be marked as a prerequisite.'?

Question

I\'m trying to compile my excel addin using C# 4.0, and started to get this problem when building my project in Visual Studio. It\'s important to tell you that I haven\'t had th

Answer 1

I had this in a solution w/ 6 projects. One of my projects was referring to the named assembly as a file reference. The others were all pointing to the project reference.

I usually get a different error in these cases.

My solution was to delete the named assembly anywhere it was referenced and add it back. Once I worked through the project, ths problem disappeared. Before doing this, I tried cleaning the solution as well as making sure none of the projects were signed.

hope it helps someone...