How to create a non expiring certificate in Visual Studio

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Anthony edited this page Jun 26, 2017 · 8 revisions

Start | All Programs | Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 | Visual Studio Tools | Developer Command Prompt for VS2012 | right click and "Run as administrator"

Right click and paste the following commands

MakeCert /n "CN=Anthony Duguid" /r /h 0 /eku "1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.3,1.3.6.1.4.1.311.10.3.13" /e "01/16/2174" /sv AnthonyDuguid.pvk AnthonyDuguid.cer 
pvk2pfx -pvk AnthonyDuguid.pvk -spc AnthonyDuguid.cer -pfx AnthonyDuguid.pfx –f

*Note the date format is the US standard MM/DD/YYYY

In the Visual Studio project properties select "Signing" click on "Select from File…"

Navigate to C:\Windows\System32 and select the certificate file (*.pfx)