Signing in Project Properties. Certificate. Certmgr. Makecert.
I have an application that I wrote some time ago and have distributed it to several customers. Now that I'm looking at the project properties again I see that the Certificate experation date is 1/27/2007. Frankly, I have no idea about how and when the date was established nor do I understand any of this signing business. There are check boxes for the ClickOnce manifest and the Assembly on this page. My question is: will this application stop running on 1/27/2007? What do I need to do to make certain there that the application does not stop running at the customer sites?
Thanks,
jerryk
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Jerryk] at [2007-12-28]
Hi,
I did a "search files" on my PC for the word certificate under VS2003 as i have the MSDN library files installed for that version.
It mentions two files Certmgr and Makecert which are both files that run under Visual Studio.
The pictures show the Path to the two files mentioned above.
See the following two files on Makecert.>>
It looks like you can maybe create a new certificate with any expiry date although i don't know if ClickOnce or a publishing solution does this for you?
More on MakeCert here.>>
and here.>>
See also.>>
For Visual Studio 2003 the files are in.>>
"C:\Program files\Microsoft Visual Studio .Net 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin\"
So if you are in a CMD window CD to that folder.
Type>>
MakeCert /? or
MakeCert /! for extended options.
CertMgr /?
will show all of the CertMgr options and also see.>>
Regards,
S_DS.
