I recently had to reinstall my OS and now when I try to publish an update to my existing application I get this error: "Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store."
Any ideas
Thanks.
Cannot find manifest signing?
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Cannot find manifest signing?
danieljameseaton
The certificate store is a place on the PC that certificates can be stored and easily accessed from any project without the need of knowing the file path to a specific file. In a way you can think of it like the GAC for certificates.
Unfortunately if you reinstalled Windows, you likely nuked your existing store... if that is the case your best bet would be to use your backup copy of the certificate (which we hope you have) and install it to the store again... after that... all should be good.
If you do not have a backup copy of the certificate... you are unfortunately out of luck unless you are willing to generate (or acquire) a new one, back it up a few times to different locations, install it to the store and use it in future instead of the old one.
colinbo
I was able to regenerate a certificate by removing these lines from the Project file (*.csproj) in notepad.
<ManifestCertificateThumbprint></ManifestCertificateThumbprint>
<ManifestKeyFile></ManifestKeyFile>
<GenerateManifests></GenerateManifests>
<SignManifests></SignManifests>
After that I re-published and, it regenerated the certificate and off I went.