When using arcade to publish a project that sets AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile, StrongName.targets overrides the key file (because arcade imports set a default value for StrongNameKeyId):

I believe StrongName.targets should not be setting properties as this violates the convention that static properties are computed in props files. Maybe this logic should be moved to StrongName.props, which would allow my project's setting of AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile to take precedence.

I can work around this by:

• setting StrongNameKeyId in my project to some unknown string, preventing arcade's override, and
• setting PublicKey and PublicKeyToken to some unknown string to satisfy the check in

  arcade/src/Microsoft.DotNet.Arcade.Sdk/tools/StrongName.targets

  Lines 84 to 85 in 9800953

  	<Error Condition="'$(SignAssembly)' != 'false' and
  	('$(PublicKey)' == '' or '$(PublicKeyToken)' == '' or '$(AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile)' == '')"

I may have missed something, but I couldn't find any place where PublicKey or PublicKeyToken were actually used, so I think those shouldn't be required to be set in the first place. edit: they're used in the arcade InternalsVisibleTo generator - see below.