Change assembly name

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By default, the assembly name is Assembly-CSharp. Is there a way to change this name?

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Answer by BorisOkunskiy · Nov 13, 2020 at 08:04 AM

For anyone who came here from Google search: the correct way is to create an Assembly Definition in your Assests/Scripts folder and name it appropriately. This generates the correct .csproj files and furthermore uses the correct assembly name everywhere (e.g. if you use JsonUtility to serialize references with [SerializeReference] you'll get an appropriate assembly name within your JSON files instead of Assembly-CSharp).

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alfish · Jan 09, 2021 at 03:19 AM 0

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Upvoting this because it indeed makes Unity not include Assembly-CSharp.dll on the output, unless you have any runtime script outside the assembly definition directories (the folders containing .asmdef and .asmref). Once you get rid of all non-editor scripts outside the assembly def/ref folders, you'll want to delete the auto-generated Assembly-CSharp.csproj, which won't be generated again.

Note: Remember that special folders like Editor aren't special under asmdef/ref. Also, you'll need to explicitly reference any runtime assemblies you use (packages, plugins) on the asmdef, since they won't be Auto-Referenced.

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Answer by FortisVenaliter · Jun 09, 2016 at 08:07 PM

Not that I'm aware of. And it's only an internal code project name, so why do you need to change it?

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OliverBooth · Jun 21, 2017 at 10:22 AM 0

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As someone who wants to change the assembly name, I can answer that question.

I'm developing a class library with internal types and members, and would like the InternalsVisibleTo assembly attribute to be more restrictive than "Assembly-CSharp"

Hauthorn · Aug 15, 2019 at 12:02 AM 0

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This is not even close to an answer.

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Answer by Hauthorn · Aug 15, 2019 at 12:05 AM

Yes, you can. I'm able to change it like you would any project, via project properties (Alt + Enter). You may need to change a setting in Options -> Tools -> Tools for Unity called "Access to project properties". You also many need to close and re-open your solution to see the effects of changing the settings.

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