Hi,

i am looking for a Tool to generate non-expireing certificates for clickonce deployment of our applications. All i found so far is some Microsoft command line tool, which explicitly states that the certificates it generates are only for "test" purposes.

Thanks.

Hi Trend, thanks for the reply.

However, we dont have a spc from a certificate company. basicly i want to make my own certificate. i dont care about the warning message during install. but i want it to last very long, or better never expire during the applications lifetime.

Philip,



What I did for ClickOnce is to just generate the certificate using Visual Studio, then I used the tool from this site to extend the time of the certificate:



http://www.may.be/renewcert/



I made it last like 10 years...probably by then we'll be using something else anyway. I did this about a year ago, so I don't remember exactly how it works, but I got it to work eventually. If you are already installing your app via ClickOnce in production, be sure to update the current certificate, or everybody has to uninstall/reinstall.



Good luck!



Greg

Hi Greg,

thanks. i will try that tool tommorow.

Can u confirm that the "Untrusted Source" Message only appears on the first install, and not anymore on updates ? Because we plan to distribute the ClickOnce-Setup.exe file through novell NAP, so that a user clicks that and it will allways be up-to-date.

If it were showing the message for the updates aswell, instead we would need to distribute 2 shortcuts (one for update, and one for regular program use).

Yes, you only see the untrusted message on first install. After that, when the user starts the app, a "launching application" dialog will appear that indicates that ClickOnce is verifying the app. The app will then either startup or if a new build is available and required, it will automatically start downloading, install itself and the app will start. I can't remember what happens with an optional upgrade...just don't do optional installations (maybe once in two years).