it is impossible to add winmd reference after update to VS2017 15.4.4

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Desktop App Converter build no longer installs. I've been making desktop bridge apps over a year now. All has been well up until recently updating visual studio to 15.4.4. I checked the references and winmd has the yellow dot of death on it.
Since updating to 15.4.4, no matter how many times i remove and manually browse to re-add, winmd just wont stick, and i get compile errors.

what do i do? is this a vs bug or is it me?

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Christopher David Romero Veal On

I added Brutal Dev via nu Get to every project that requires auto strong naming.

Make sure to sign the assemblies first.
(right click on every project, under build, make a signature, then sign every project with that signature.

Then add Brutal Dev's Strong namer, then build.