CREATE A NON-EXPIRING TEST CERTIFICATE (PFX) FOR CLICKONCE APPLICATIONS-CSDN博客

A ClickOnce application must be signed using a certificate. You can buy a real certificate or create a Test Certificate by your own. Visual Studio 2010 helps in creating such a Test Certificate. It offers a wizard and is very easy to use. The draw-back of the simple feature is that you can not do customization.

Create a Test Certificate in Visual Studio

Disadvantages of Visual Studio Test Certificate

If you want to deploy your application with such a Test Certificate you need to consider the following disadvantages:

“Issued To” and “Issued By” will contain the user name of your current windows account

“Expiration Date” is set to “Expires in one year”

Create a more customized Test Certificate (pfx)

If you want to create a more customized Test Certificate, you can do that by using the following script.

makecert -sv ClickOnceTestApp.pvk
         -n CN=Sample ClickOnceTestApp.cer
         -b 01/01/2012 -e 12/31/2100 -r
pvk2pfx -pvk "ClickOnceTestApp.pvk"
        -spc "ClickOnceTestApp.cer"
        -pfx "ClickOnceTestApp.pfx"

To learn more about the used tools
Makecert
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bfsktky3%28v=vs.80%29.aspx

Pvk2Pfx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff550672%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Add your Test Certificate to your Visual Studio Project

If you add your custom Test Certificate to your Visual Studio Project it will look like this.