Certificate file types for AddIns in VStudio 2008

 

Hello, does anyone know that what Certification file types (other than .pfx) are supported in Visual Studio 2008 for signing Add-In ClickOnce Manifest or Assebly?

 

Only .pfx files are shown in Studio's FileOpen dialog.

 

I'm asking this because our customer is buying a certificate and it should be in format that Visual Studio 2008 understands.

 

 

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you can purchase any Authenticode certificate valid for code-signing per ClickOnce Deployment and Authenticode and Introduction to Code Signing.

 

VS only opens .pfx files, but certificates are.cer files.  You can use the Certificate Manager included with Windows (certmgr.msc) to import the .cer file and convert it to a .pfx file.  there is also a certificate manager in the .NET Framework documented at Certificate Manager Tool (Certmgr.exe).

 

the certificates also need to be deployed either manually or with group policy: Deploy a Certificate Manually by Using the Certificates Snap-in or  Deploy Certificates by Using Group Policy.

 

if it helps, there is a list of certificate vendors at Microsoft root certificate program members (January 2008).

 

m.