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Visual Studio: Create a Tool to Get the Public Key of an Assembly

To add a Get Assembly Public Key item to the Tools menu In Visual Studio, click External Tools on the Tools menu. In the External Tools dialog box, click Add and enter Get Assembly Public Key in the Title box. Fill the Command box by browsing to sn.exe . It is typically installed at the following location: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0a\Bin\x64\sn.exe. In the Arguments box, type the following (case sensitive): -Tp $(TargetPath) . Select the Use Output window check box. Click OK . The new command is added to the Tools menu.

How to install/enable the WebClient (WebDAV) Service on Windows Server 2012 to open/edit SharePoint files

Are you having trouble opening/editing files stored in SharePoint, especially non Office files on Windows Server 2012? By default the WebClient service is not installed on Windows Server 2012. Without this service running, opening/editing of non-Office files stored in SharePoint is very restricted. To enable the WebClient service in Windows 2012 follow these steps: Start Server Manager | Manage | Add Roles and Features Select Installation Type of Role based or feature based installation Choose the server to install the feature on (in my case I’m running server manager locally on the server I want to install the WebClient service on) Just click Next to skip over Server Roles (it’s a feature we want to enable not a role) Expand the User Interfaces and Infrastructure feature. By default this feature is partially installed. We need the Desktop Experience component of this feature. The WebClient is bundled with this component. According to Microsoft it is only possible to