Strong name validation failed on VB.NET Assembly

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Published on 2010-05-05T10:52:54Z Indexed on 2010/05/05 10:58 UTC
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I have a VB.Net 1.1 application works just fine after compiling in Visual Studio. However, I want to use ILMerge to combine all the referenced assemblies into a single executable just to make it easier to move around. After I send it through ILMerge and try to run it I get the error

"Strong name validation failed for .exe" .....

But none of my stuff is strong named! I saw this post here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/403731/strong-name-validation-failed and tried running it through 'sn.exe -Vr .exe' but that gives me this error:

".exe does not represent a strongly named assembly"

Has anyone else had this problem before? How do I fix it?

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