Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store

Question

I created a new Console Application that was built and working as expected using visual studio 2022. However, when I build an application on another version of Visual Studio such as Visual Studio 2015 with a different version of the framework, I receive this error "Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store".

How can I solve this issue?

Answer 1

Solving: Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store

To solve this issue "Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store", you have to do the following steps:

Steps

1.Right Click on your Project > and select Properties

2. From the left side, click on Signing.
3. Finally, Uncheck the " Sign the ClickOnce manifests " as shown below.

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