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Wednesday, March 8, 2017 5:43 PM
I am moving from Visual Studio 2013 to Visual Studio 2017 (community). I have a couple of programs I developed in 2013 and have tried compile them in 2017 and get the following error:
SignTool Error: No certificates were found that met all the given criteria.
These would compile no problem in 2013 so what am I doing wrong?
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Friday, March 10, 2017 7:39 PM âś…Answered | 1 vote
Hi and thanks for the reply. I kind of resolved the issue on my own. Here is what I did to transfer over to 2017 and what I did to resolve the issue.
The type of project was a Visual Basic - Windows Forms Application. This was built using Visual Studio Express 2013.
I use cloud storage to hold my projects so that I can work on them from my desktop or my laptop and have the current version to work on. I installed Visual Studio 2017 community on my Laptop (keeping Visual Studio 2013 Express on my desktop).
In order to make sure that I don't screw-up this project I made a complete copy of the project folder under a Visual Studio 2017 folder and started to work in that folder. This also copied the Certificate as that is in the project folder.
I then started to work on VS 2017 on my laptop.
When I got that error I went to the folder that held the certificate and double clicked it but for some reason it would not install (it actually opened in a notepad type of window). I know that sounds weird but that is what happened.
So what I did was I moved the certificate to the desktop (for safe keeping). I then opened the project in VS 2017 and deleted the certificate from the Solution Explorer Window. I then went to the Project > Properties > Signing window and checked the "Sign the Assembly" checkbox and signed it. I left the "Sign the ClickOnce Manifests" checkbox checked.
This installed a new temp certificate and I can now work on this project in 2017 on my laptop. I can now start testing to see how 2017 works and see if I want to move to this version.
Friday, March 10, 2017 5:32 AM | 2 votes
Hi TJBlues,
Please share me which type project you have created?
1). First we could uncheck the following options in project properties panel. Refer to this screenshot:
2). We need to install the certificate, please find the xxx.pfx file in your project, and doubt-click to install it.
The similar issue as yours, you could refer to it:
Sincerely,
Oscar
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Monday, March 13, 2017 9:54 AM
Hi friend,
Glad to know you have resolved your issue, and share the solution here, which could be helpful for others who have the same issue.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely,
Oscar
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Monday, October 23, 2017 4:23 PM
Thanks This worked for me.
Thursday, December 12, 2019 3:10 AM
Thank you Oscar this fixed the issue..