SmartAssembly build failed: The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131018)

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Hi all,

I am adding the smart assembly tag to my project file to obfuscate my exe and dll files using the following smart assembly command.

XML

<UsingTask TaskName="SmartAssembly.MSBuild.Tasks.Build" AssemblyName="SmartAssembly.MSBuild.Tasks, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=7f465a1c156d4d57" />
  <Target Name="AfterBuild" Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Debug'">
    <SmartAssembly.MSBuild.Tasks.Build OverwriteAssembly="True" ProjectFile="E:\Rahul SVN\CA\smart\Smart Project\CM.saproj" input="$(OutDir)Client Management.exe" output="$(OutDir)Client Management.exe" />
  </Target>

When I try to build the solution it throws the following error :

SmartAssembly build failed:

The module was expected to contain an assembly manifest. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131018).

Kindly assist on this

Thanks,

Posted 22-Oct-15 0:08am

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Richard Deeming 22-Oct-15 10:29am

SmartAssembly is a commercial product. If you have a problem using it, contact their support team[^].

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-Oct-15 14:42pm

...but the problem is pretty obvious. By some reason, inquirer points to some executable module which is not a valid main module of a .NET/CLR assembly, which CLR system could recognize by CLR assembly manifest, which is missing in this case.
—SA

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