[wix-users] FileLoadException when Building using 3.11.2.4516

[Sean Hall]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15238714/net-local-assembly-load-failed-with-cas-policy

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 03:30 Gruber, Kerry A via wix-users <
wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org> wrote:

> All,
> I am seeing I "FileLoadException" for Candle.exe while building with the
> latest version of the Wix binaries.  This issue does not occur with the
> 3.11.1 binaries.  The failure I get is;
>
> System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly
> 'file:///C:\temp\throwaway\WIX\SecureWrapper\SecureWrapperProject\WIX\candle.exe'
> or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from
> HRESULT: 0x80131515) ---> System.NotSupportedException: An attempt was made
> to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused the
> assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework.
>
> This causes issue both when building in VS2019 and when building on
> command line using the 18362 EWDK.
>
> Looking at the code deltas between the two versions, the changes appear to
> be related to signing of Wix binaries (unclear if it also affects
> contents.)  I am wondering it the changes are making the binaries try to
> sign something using a tool that isn't present, or possibly the security on
> my IT system is not letting a request through to get signed.
>
> Any ideas on how I can resolve this or help root-causing?
>
> Thanks, Kerry
>
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