What a waste of a tool. Here I am, trying to automate builds and transition from a test-generated .pfx certificate to a full-blown bona fide Verisign certificate.
Background: This Verisign certificate has been laying around the office, and the last employee who used it quit 2 months ago. There is a password written on the CD with .spc and .pvk files. My mission is to generate a .pfx file and sign our InstallShield installer, as well as ClickOnce manifests. So far, here are my resources: MSDN Signing Click Once Manifests, better yet, Creating Publisher Certificates For Click Once from Geeks with Blogs.
Brian Noyes has a great article on Using Mage to accomplish this task. While that does achieve the desired results, it fails to provide the automation that I need.
That is where the command line form of the mage tool saves the day.
Back to Brian's blog for the answer.
Once something can be boiled down to it's command line counterparts, it can then be automated.
