How do I find the PublicKeyToken for a particular dll?

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I need to recreate a provider in my web.config file that looks something like this:

<membership defaultProvider="AspNetSqlMemProvider">
  <providers>
    <clear/>
    <add connectionStringName="TRAQDBConnectionString" applicationName="TRAQ" minRequiredPasswordLength="7" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0"
         name="AspNetSqlMemProvider"
         type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=B03F5F7F11D50A3A"
    />
  </providers>
</membership>

However, I get a runtime error saying this assembly cannot be loaded, and I think it is because I have the wrong PublicKeyToken. How do I look up the PublicKeyToken for my assembly?

Alternatively, am I going entirely the wrong way with this?

13 Answers

As @CRice said you can use the below method to get a list of dependent assembly with publicKeyToken

public static int DependencyInfo(string args) 
{
    Console.WriteLine(Assembly.LoadFile(args).FullName);
    Console.WriteLine(Assembly.LoadFile(args).GetCustomAttributes(typeof(System.Runtime.Versioning.TargetFrameworkAttribute), false).SingleOrDefault());
    try {
        var assemblies = Assembly.LoadFile(args).GetReferencedAssemblies(); 

        if (assemblies.GetLength(0) > 0)
        {
            foreach (var assembly in assemblies)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(" - " + assembly.FullName + ", ProcessorArchitecture=" + assembly.ProcessorArchitecture);             
            }
            return 0;
        }
    }
    catch(Exception e) {
        Console.WriteLine("An exception occurred: {0}", e.Message);
        return 1;
    } 
    finally{}

    return 1;
}

i generally use it as a LinqPad script you can call it as

DependencyInfo("@c:\MyAssembly.dll"); from the code

If you want the token for something published on NuGet,

For example, OxyPlot.Wpf :

https://nuget.info/packages/OxyPlot.Wpf/2.1.0

and browse for the dll and its details.

Just change the nuget pkg name and version on the url for any other package.

put into file dll-assemblyinfo in your $PATH:

#!/bin/sh

f=$(readlink -f "$1")

{
echo "using System.Reflection;"
echo "Assembly.LoadFile(\"$f\");"
} | csharp

chmod +x then

$ dll-assemblyinfo packages/System.Buffers.4.5.1/lib/netstandard2.0/System.Buffers.dll
System.Buffers, Version=4.0.3.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=cc7b13ffcd2ddd51
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