(转)Resolving errors creating a Strong Name Key
William Bartholomew
Musings on software engineering, technology and Aspergers Syndrome.
Resolving errors creating a Strong Name Key
When creating a strong-name key in the “Signing” properties tab of Visual Studio 2005 (aka VS2005 or Whidbey) you may receive a “The operation could not be completed” error message, alternatively using the “sn.exe -k” command-line utility you may receive a “Failed to generate a strong name key pair — Access is denied.” error message.
These errors are usually caused by insufficient permissions to the “%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys” folder, and will most likely arise when running as a non-administrator user.
To resolve this, you can run the cacls.exe tool as an administrator to grant the required permissions:
cacls.exe "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys" /E /G username:F
