thinking about it i have formatted my computer and reinstalled all my software since then.
how can i resolve this problem?
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I have just opened a project I completed a while ago in Visual Studio and I am suddenly getting a build error with the following message:
Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store.
Can someone tell me what is causing this and how I can sort it out?
Many Thanks
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You either need to restore the lost certificate, or simply create a new one and sign the project with the new certificate.
Not sure how your using the certificate in your enviroment. I have a domain wide security setup file which allows all full network access to any of my deployed .net apps which are signed by my certificate. if i lost the certificate it would be bad.
If you only used it to sign the published app, just create a new one.
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by: DBelamPosted on 2007-12-07 at 04:45:29ID: 20426966
Have you changed your pc/laptop since you last opened the project?
The certificate which was used to build and sign the project is no longer available on your pc/laptop. It maybe that it does exist but has expired.