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5 Sep 2012 by OriginalGriff
If you mean "How do I cancel my account?" you can't do that yourself - you need to ask the Admins for that.Post a request here: http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1645/Site-Bugs-Suggestions.aspx[^] and Chris and co will handle it for you.
5 Sep 2012 by Wes Aday
If you mean "unsubscribe" as in not receiving emails from here anymore, then go to your profile and uncheck all of the email options.If you mean "unsubscribe" as in delete your account, then go to http://www.codeproject.com/Forums/1645/Site-Bugs-Suggestions.aspx[^] and ask the site admins to...
19 Feb 2012 by Bernhard Hiller
So you want to make sure that nobody changed the contents of the text file, that's the point isn't it?A rough outline of a possible solution:Read the text of the file, apply a hash function, encrypt the hash using your private key of a non-symmetric encryption function. Add a new line...
21 Feb 2013 by Steve Maier
What I have seen when I have had this is that VS2010 is compiling the code across multiple processes and it does not always play nicely with each other. To get around this, you can go into the Tools->Options->Projects and Solutions->Build and Run and then change the maximum number of parallel...
5 Jul 2013 by Ron Beyer
This error usually occurs when you've referenced an x86 DLL in an AnyCPU/x64 running on x64, or vice versa. Make sure that the referenced DLL's are compiled under the same architecture that the project is.
3 Jul 2012 by Tim Corey
It looks like you have a few issues in your process. The error message you are getting basically means "your SSL cert is messed up". The first issue I see is in your makecert process. You are missing some switches that are required to make a proper cert file. Beyond this, using a local cert...
19 Jul 2012 by Member 3300672
Dear all,I want to develop a C#.net application to sign a file (.txt or.html) using a certificate (.cer or.pfx) file .After signing the document I will send the document and signature to the receiver by email .Also I want to develop a verification tool at the receiver end.Please guide...
19 Jul 2012 by Manfred Rudolf Bihy
Look at this website as it should give you an overview and get you started: http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-framework/beginning-with-digital-signatures-in-.net-framework/[^].Cheers,Manfred
17 Oct 2012 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
The Windows application you can start up before any user is logged in is a Windows Service which is set up for auto start (you can see this option if you start the "Services" Control Panel applet). But it would not make any sense, because this could not be the UI application.The only thing...
13 Feb 2013 by MitchG92_24
Hi All,I am creating an application using Visual Studio 2012, this application will eventually be distributed via SCCM to others within my business. The only problem i am having is with the certificate. When i create an app package it is signed with an automatically generated...
21 Feb 2013 by bsilence
Hello, I'm having an error when compiling my solution in Visual Studio 2010. It gives me this error "Assembly signing failed; output may not be signed -- Error signing assembly -- The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.". I have the same strong...
5 Mar 2013 by Yvan Rodrigues
From the IE Blog archive[^]Desktop AppsDesktop applications remain an important part of the Windows experience and Microsoft remains committed to the safety of the desktop experience and our users. We recognize that Internet Explorer (IE) isn’t the only way users download applications...
6 Apr 2013 by iDebD
Hi, I am signing a Setup.exe following Exe signing process?[^]It is successfully signing this Smart installer Setup.exe but corrupting it; I have tried with other simple console applications and mfc or win32 exe signing through this process and they are successfully signed as well as...
9 Jul 2013 by Hains Hausmann Junior
The problem was relationed with header include.When I changed some includes, the app had worked normally.
6 Aug 2013 by KenBonny
I have got a peculiar problem. I created a local certificate and I signed a script file with it. When it completes, it sais that the status is valid. But when I try to run the error, I get an error. When I check the Get-AuthenticodeSignature it says my script status is "Unknown Error". I've...
14 Aug 2013 by KenBonny
I changed the ExecutionPolicy to RemoteSigned.Thanks to virusstorm for the solution. (If he posts the same solution, I'll accept it as the solution and give credit to him.)
23 Apr 2014 by Okwkwe Anyasi
Take a look at this link Error Deploying Visual Studio WorkflowsI hope this helps.
25 Jul 2014 by DoubleDanny
I have a bunch of C++/CLI projects and the need is to Strong name/Sign them, so that they can be pushed to the GAC.I have done the following, I use VS2013.1. Generated the *.snk file using the SN.exe utility.2. In the C++/CLI project's property setting, I have set the Key file...
25 Jul 2014 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
To sign, use the project property page, last tab named "Signing". Check "Sign the assembly", then use "Chose a strong name key file" to choose "" list item. Select your file from file dialog and finalize the signing.There are many ways to check up is some assembly is signed. One...
13 Feb 2015 by lukeer
Hi experts,has anyone ever successfully signed a driver package?I have one here with altered .inf file to reflect our customer's company name with its unique USB PID (leaving chip producer's VID untouched), which messes up the driver package signing for installation.So I guess that I...
2 Aug 2017 by Levent Yağcıoğlu
Hello everyone, I wanna ask question about RSA sign on C#. I have one document for sign. I have plain hex values of modulus, private exponent and public exponent. I dont' t want to signing with random generated keys. When I try with sign with sign tool, i have got result perfectly. But i can'...
2 Aug 2017 by Thomas Daniels
You can create an RSAParameters instance: RSAParameters Structure (System.Security.Cryptography)[^] And then pass those in an RSACryptoServiceProvider[^]: RSAParameters parameters = new RSAParameters { D = ..., DP = ..., .... }; using (RSACryptoServiceProvider rsa = new...
19 Oct 2018 by jcsquire
I can get close: by purchasing an EV certificate from Digicert, I can compile my code and put it in a href link on my website. When a user clicks the href link, the file is downloaded. A second click on the downloaded file runs it, with no further ado thanks to the EV certificate. I'd like to...
18 Oct 2018 by OriginalGriff
You can't. The whole idea is that nothing - but nothing - runs directly on the client machine unless the user actually tells it to. Your site has no control over what happens to downloads of any form, it is all down to the browser and how the user instructs it to behave. Think about it for a...
19 Oct 2018 by Patrice T
Quote: I'd like to cut down the two clicks to one, since eventually I'd like to have students choose among several dozens of demonstrations to run. You can't because of a silly thing named 'Security'. Download and execution on client side are client decision. My browser is set so that it always...
19 Oct 2018 by jcsquire
I agree with the above comments that the ability to auto-run code from a website that can read to or write from the user's drive poses a major security risk. Yet, I don't think my question is naive. I currently have an interactive program on my pages inside a .svg container that executes on the...
19 Oct 2018 by jcsquire
Actually, the approach I use with .svgs interprets user clicks, computes a dynamically-calculated phasor, and then calculates a dynamically-calculated Fourier reconstruction and plots that in an animated fashion. I can make it do a lot more than just drawing static data from a file! I suppose...
21 Jan 2019 by Member 14124862
I'm currently developing a .AAR android library and I would like to sign the released library with my own key so that I can determine if a fake aar with the same name and functionality has been released by mine or not. I also want to be able to check the authenticity of my library...
21 Jan 2019 by Richard MacCutchan
See How to Implement a Provider[^].
13 Mar 2019 by Divya B Nair
Hi, I have a .Net executable which I have digitally signed using a certificate generated through makecert.exe and signed using signtool. How to verify that exe has not been tampered or it is still using the certificate digitally signed by me. For ex - A situation where anyone can replace the...
13 Mar 2019 by Gerry Schmitz
SignTool - Windows applications | Microsoft Docs[^]
24 Aug 2020 by Tridib-Roy-Arjo
I am having a stupid error of code signing in my application. I have fully disabled code signing in my application. But still it is saying like that! What is the reason for this kind of errors! I have disabled everything for the word SIGN! Then...
13 Feb 2015 by Vladimir Svyatski
I'm going to show you some not quite evident things if you're about to write a C++/CLI application.
1 Mar 2013 by Mike Meinz
After some research using Google search using search key "windows smartscreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting", it looks like signing with a code signing certificate doesn't get rid of it immediately. Based on some of the information in the Google search results, it looks like a...
24 Apr 2014 by idle63
Hello togetherI try to install a USB device which is using "usbser.sys" from ms. Installation will be done with an custom ".inf". Until W7 everything worked fine, but with W8.1 installation gives the error message something like "driver not signed".Why (the hell) an already preinstalled...
3 Jul 2012 by Areff
hello everybody i have a cab file and i want to put it in my web page as a OBJECT (contains my activex control) i have used makecert.exe by this command to generate the MyCert.cer and MyCert_PK.pvk filesmakecert -ss MyCertStore MyCert.cer -sv MyCert_PK.pvkthen i have used this...
12 Feb 2013 by MitchG92_24
Hi All, I have created a simple Windows Store App that is to be used on an internal basis. This application is to be deployed using SCCM.The certificate i am using currently is the one that is generated for you by Visual Studio, however when another machine tries to download this...
28 Feb 2013 by larssy1
Hi everyone,You might think, not again such a question where are already thousands of topics about..However, I've not been capable of finding the answer i needed to fix this problem.None of these topics go as deep as the Keychain.When i'm trying to deploy my app to an iPhone, i'm...
15 Jan 2018 by Ajcek84
How to properly sign ClickOnce deployment in a way that actually works
19 Feb 2012 by Andreas Gieriet
I wanted to sign a plain text file.The attempts to use the sn tool or the SignTool failed: they do support to sign assemblies or any exe/dll/... files, but no text files. If I try to nonetheless use those tools, they do complain that the file format is unknown.I even tried to simply...
1 Mar 2013 by Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov
Signing of the application (I hope you mean signing the application to make it strong named) never modifies its behavior, at least if the application is not modified. This answers your question: it won't help you.However, I recommend to sign all your assemblies if you ever deploy...
1 Mar 2013 by Yvan Rodrigues
When users start my application for the first time they get a warning like this[^].Will signing the application prevent this?
5 Sep 2012 by Fabiola Garzoni
Good MorningI am not a developer and i subscribed in this site to post a question to a friend. How can i unsubscribe ?ThanksFabiola
18 Oct 2012 by vacho2
Hello everybody,I would like to make application for windows based system for user authentication. Does anybody have some experiences with this? I am planning authenticate users via face recognition, but I am curious how to start that app before user loggs on to system.
5 Jul 2013 by Hains Hausmann Junior
Hi,It's my first issue here.I have a SLN with the the settings as follows:- IDE: Visual Studio 2012 - Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter.- A couple of C++/CLI DLL projects called DF and FT with plataform toolset v100 (Visual Studio 2010 compiled) and /clr support that contains my...