Friday, July 24, 2009

Failed to convert key to token - The public key for assembly '(null)' was invalid when running the sn command to know the publickeytoken of an asembly

ERROR: When trying to know the Public key token fo the strong assembly using sn command you may receive an error as below:
Failed to convert key to token -- The public key for assembly '(null)' was inval id.

SOLUTION: This error comes because the command options are case sensitive. The option Tp is case sensitive.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC>sn -Tp \PendingTaskReport.dll
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6 comments:

  1. UnknownAugust 4, 2009 at 9:24 AM

    Thank you so much for this tip, i was banging my head against the wall for a while.

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  2. WRGJanuary 26, 2012 at 6:01 AM

    Yep same here - why can't microsoft give better error messages.

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  3. stentorJune 15, 2012 at 5:41 AM

    >why can't microsoft give better error messages.

    This is by design.

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  4. Bart RoozendaalOctober 20, 2012 at 3:05 AM

    Another satisfied customer. Thanks for keeping me from banging my head agains a wall :-)

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  5. AnonymousDecember 27, 2014 at 9:17 AM

    Thanks a lot Anil... :)

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  6. Diamond LessonSeptember 9, 2020 at 8:24 AM

    Thank you its working

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