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Hi all, welcome back, The other day a customer of mine was having an issue with SignTool.exe when signing an EXE file. The EXE file was getting corrupted /unusable after signing it. When troubleshooting this issue, I had the chance to play a bit more
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Hi all, In some situations we may need to reference a COM dll in our Visual Studio project in order to use a specific COM object within our .NET application, and thanks to COM Interop we can do it. When we add a reference to a COM dll in our project,
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Hi all, welcome back, I recently had a customer who needed to retrieve extensions from certificates the easy way in .NET 1.1 , and they wanted to use CAPICOM for that. In .NET 2.0 and later we may use X509Certificate2 to achieve the same results (I strongly
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Hi all, welcome back, The other day we were using CAPICOM in a client script run in Internet Explorer . We were trying to sign some string with the private key of a certificate we previously installed in the client machine, but we kept getting the error
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Hi all, welcome back, When we use CAPICOM , we may get some messages like the following: Security Alert: This Web site needs to decrypt data using your private key. Security Alert: This Web site needs to create a digital signature using your private key.
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Hi all, welcome back, If you remember all the confusion there was regarding CAPICOM support on Vista , now everything seems much clearer on Windows Server 2008. Our documentation team has done its homework, as we can see in CAPICOM Reference : "CAPICOM
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I know there has been a lot of confusion about this, because some articles on the web (i.e. MSDN) say CAPICOM is not supported on Vista , while others say it is. I have good news for you people, especially for those who want to do cryptographic operations
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