Maxim

Thanx Maxim,

i was able to create certificate in my iis, website. How this will be installed in client machine's web browser????

i am expecting a reply from u...

Thanks..

Manually i have done it and its workig properly in client machine....

i am looking for an automatic installation it...

Thanx for ur help and support....

i will update if i got any solution......:)

Hi Maxim,

i am successfully automated the installation of certificate in to ie's stores.... see this code snippet

try

           {

               WebClient web = new WebClient();

               byte[] b = web.DownloadData(@"mymachine/.../key.cer");

               X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(b);

               X509Store store = new X509Store(StoreName.AuthRoot, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);

               store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadWrite);

               store.Add(cert);

               store.Close();

               store = new X509Store(StoreName.TrustedPublisher, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);

               store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadWrite);

               store.Add(cert);

               store.Close();

               Console.WriteLine("Certificate Successfully Installed...!");

           }

           catch (System.Exception ex)

           {

               Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);

           }

make this as c# a console application..

this exe will automate the installation of certificate.

i know an executable is not a better solution..

me still looking for a scripting solutio for automatic installation of certificate.

" You can make "click-once" deployment page for EXE"-- how to do this???

My Xbap is communicating with a wcf service, to make it possible xbap might run in full trust mode..., thats y i am continuing with XBAP.

i have created an exe only for minimizing the effort in client side ie., installation of certificates in two different store's.

Thanks for continues response....

Great... thank u...

What is the use of Index.htm..? Are we supposed to call it from any page like Publish.htm or it automatically gets called by which certificate gets automitically gets installed.

I created a setup to Publish and  can see the setup.exe. I can also see the certificate and I kept the certificate in the application folder but when I access the Publish page and clicl on Run, It starts the setup.exe but do not install certificate.

      Please let me know if I am missing any setting which not let the setup.exe to access the certificate due to which the certificate not get installed.

Thanks,

Chetan Deshmukh

Thank you for valuable information.

If we already have installed our xbap version(say version 1) in a client machine with certification, and if we try to install a same application with different version, it doesnt work. Certification failed. It always shows the error "Trust not granted" . We had to manually uninstall the certification and have to install it again. Is there any possible to overcome this problem.

I am expecting the reply....

The topic is quite curious, i must say

Hi subindev and all,

The post by subindev on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, tell how to install the certificate in client machine programmatically. I done this successfully but it is only working in the my machine . if someone else tries to access the url then the "Trust Not Granted" is comming. I cant figure it out . Do anyone knows why ??

Thanks

Saurabh

try

          {

              WebClient web = new WebClient();

              byte[] b = web.DownloadData(@"mymachine/.../key.cer");

              X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(b);

              X509Store store = new X509Store(StoreName.AuthRoot, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);

              store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadWrite);

              store.Add(cert);

              store.Close();

              store = new X509Store(StoreName.TrustedPublisher, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);

              store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadWrite);

              store.Add(cert);

              store.Close();

              Console.WriteLine("Certificate Successfully Installed...!");

          }

          catch (System.Exception ex)

          {

              Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);

          }

I added this code at Application_startup for the XBAP application. But the problem is that as soon as the application starts it needs trust to run the methods of System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates namespace. So the code in Application_startup throws error. any other way to do this apart from doing it at Application_startup.

Thanks

Saurabh

Hi All,

I am new to xbap but I am currently stuck in the deployment aspect. This article provides a detailed step by step but for me it fails on the certificate. To describe my xbap, i need it to launch word/outlook on client machine which will be a link through our intranet portal. I did create the app and works fine on my machine since its running locally. Now when I am ready to deploy to our test instance, I am stuck at certificate part and confused as to if I need to purchase a root certificate or can i create my own and use it to deploy in production?

I am realy Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Great !!!

You should see my history in Blog.

Hi,

I brought the digital certificate and installed it in my machine. when I open excel my macro working fine in macro security sets to very high. But my requirment is I open to open that .xla file from vb.net windows application. while doing this excel throwing an error that security is very high. So excel can't open this macro.

How can I solve this issue. Any suggestions are very helpfull for me.

Thanks

Hi,

I am unable to open digital certified xla from vb.net application. while opening it from excel I can. But through program I am unable to open it while security sets to very high.

Dim Proc As New System.Diagnostics.Process

Proc.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = folderName

Proc.StartInfo.FileName = "myKMacro.xla"

Proc.Start()

Thanks

i found solution automatically install certificate.

Example

1. i create console application and coding following below and build to "InstallerCertificates.exe"

   static void Main(string[] args)

       {

           try

           {

               if (args.Length > 0)

               {

                   Console.WriteLine("Installer Certificates 1.0 ............");

                   WebClient web = new WebClient();

                   byte[] b = web.DownloadData(args[0]);

                   X509Certificate2 cert = new X509Certificate2(b);

                   X509Store store = new X509Store(StoreName.AuthRoot, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);

                   store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadWrite);

                   store.Remove(cert);

                   store.Add(cert);

                   store.Close();

                   store = new X509Store(StoreName.TrustedPublisher, StoreLocation.LocalMachine);

                   store.Open(OpenFlags.ReadWrite);

                   store.Remove(cert);

                   store.Add(cert);

                   store.Close();

                   Console.WriteLine("Certificate Successfully Installed...!");

               }

           }

           catch (System.Exception ex)

           {

               Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);

               Console.ReadLine();

           }

       }

2. i go to folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\

   and copy WindowsInstaller3_1 and rename to "WindowsInstallerCertificates" and copy "InstallerCertificates.exe"

   paste to this folder.

3. i modify Product.xml following

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<Product

 xmlns="schemas.microsoft.com/.../bootstrapper"

 ProductCode="MyInstallerCertificates"

>

   <!-- Defines list of files to be copied on build -->

   <PackageFiles CopyAllPackageFiles="true">

  <PackageFile Name="InstallerCertificates.exe"/>

</PackageFiles>

   <!-- Defines how to invoke the setup for the Windows installer Certificates redist -->

   <Commands Reboot="Immediate">

       <Command PackageFile="InstallerCertificates.exe"

Arguments= 'wirat/.../WpfBrowserApplication1_TemporaryKey.pfx'

                EstimatedInstallSeconds="30" >

           <ExitCodes>

               <ExitCode Value="0" Result="Success"/>

               <ExitCode Value="1641" Result="SuccessReboot"/>

               <ExitCode Value="3010" Result="SuccessReboot"/>

               <DefaultExitCode Result="Fail" FormatMessageFromSystem="true" String="GeneralFailure" />

           </ExitCodes>

       </Command>

   </Commands>

</Product>

4. i modify Package.xml in folder "en" to

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>

<Package

 xmlns="schemas.microsoft.com/.../bootstrapper"

 Name="DisplayName"

 Culture="Culture"

>

   <PackageFiles>

       <PackageFile Name="eula.txt"/>

   </PackageFiles>

   <!-- Defines a localizable string table for error messages-->

   <Strings>

       <String Name="DisplayName">Windows Installer Certificates</String>

   </Strings>

</Package>

5. i goto project wpf browser=>properties=>publish=>prerequisites

  and check "Create setup program to install prerequisite components"

  and select -Windows Installer 3.1

                  -.NET Framework 3.5 SP1

                  -Windows Installer Certificates (My bootstrapper)

  and check Dowload prerequisites from the same location as my application.

I have done as you guided but Windows Installer Certificates does not appear in wpf browser=>properties=>publish=>prerequisites

Please tell detail

Thanks in advance

Your must do following step in example 2-5, after that your can see.

Hi, turns out that my TSTSRV2003 certificate had an extension about revocation lists, which pointed to tstsrv2003.mydomain.com/.../tstsrv2003.crl

Well.. to begin with.. i didnt even have a certenroll folder there, so i had to create it, copy the tstsrv2003.crl file (it was in Windows/System32/CertEnroll/).

Then i had to change the settings of that folder, to work without SSL, because my computer  tried to do a HTTP GET through port 80, instead of HTTPS through port 443.

I figured out because i opened the IIS log files and noticed some HTTP 403 errors being sent to my computer when trying to make HTTP GET of CertEnroll/TSTSRV2003.crl.

Still.. it was hard to tell whats going on because presentationhost.exe simply crashes and doesn't show any message at all.

Happy coding everyone, Bye.

Anybody got an example of loading the certificates automatically using VB .NET?

scorbs.com/.../FinanceApplication.xbap

This above web does not need to install certification into browser. Can Anybody explain it to me. and How to do to have an application like that.

Do you have any solution automatically install certificate without using prerequisite. I want this solution is automatically not manually clicking to download prerequisite and then install it.

Can you help me?

I'm able to run the application on client's browser iff client register the certificate. Isn't there any other way to avoid such thing? It looks quite awkward if every user going to register the certificate.

I also feel that I shouldn't make my application as XBAP, try to do same thing using asp 3.5

Hi,

This is very good artical. It really helped me. I am successfully able to install certificate on IE. But I am not able to install on FireFox. Can anybody help me out?

Hi Wirat I have followed all ur steps carefully. When I go to Publish option of my application In prerequisites I do not get any windowinstallercertificate option . Whats wrong????????

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I have followed your given steps.

The link(file:///C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/WpfApplication3/WpfApplication2.xbap) is working fine but (localhost/.../WpfApplication2.xbap) this link gives error trust not granted. I have IIS 5. Any solution?

Hi Wirat

I followed all the steps u mentioned,

but i received the problem while publishing.

It's says CGI time out..Server deleted the process.

I dont understad where i made mistake.