Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store

Question

I signed the assembly with my VSTO 4.0 word add-in with strong name key file .snk and tried to uncheck Sign the ClickOnce manifest but after rebuild it appears again. After I tried to delete lines for ClickOnce manifest in .csproj, .pfx manifest appears after every rebuild.

Does anyone know solution to permanently delete temporary ClickOnce manifest?

Solution 1

The problem for me was that the checkbox "Signing the ClickOnce manifest" was checked. If you are not using signing uncheck it in Project Properties->signing->sign the clickonce manifests

Solution 2

Unchecking the "Signing the ClientOnce Manifest" doesn't always work. The solution is to remove the following lines from your csproj files

<PropertyGroup> <ManifestCertificateThumbprint>4FCE3F0998F4B89946A9D0346838E77A0C5C5568</ManifestCertificateThumbprint> </PropertyGroup> <PropertyGroup> <GenerateManifests>true</GenerateManifests> </PropertyGroup> <PropertyGroup> <SignManifests>false</SignManifests> </PropertyGroup>

Comments

[Jay Douglass]

Thanks! How in the world did this get checked?

[Dmitriy]

And as for my case, first I had to check the "sign the clickonce manifests" option and generate a test cerificate. Than I signed an assembly with that test cert., uncheck that option again and only than signed with my real certificate. It seems, it had been looking for those manifests.

[RBT]

I had to uncheck both Sign the ClickOnce manifests and Sign the assembly check boxes under signing tab in project properties to get rid of the issue.