Rick Strahl

Interesting: Trying to sign a file that has 'extended' data in it. Basically an Exe with data that is attached (a Zip File) to it via a file write. Using this is in my WebViewPackager and the EXE runs, but Signtool refuses to sign it. <sigh>

We're adding some languages that display w/ inline syntax highlighting in the editor in Markdown Monster. There's new support for Python and C/C++ which seem to be very popular in our user base, in addition to C# and Web languages which have always been supported. #python #cpp

Blogged: Fighting through Setting up Microsoft Trusted Signing for Code Signing I've written up my notes from getting a CodeSigning certificate setup on Azure, and yeah it's a pain in the ass. But in the end I did get it to work, warts and all. weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2025/Jul…

So the CodeSign certificate has an expiration of... 3 days! So how does this work? Will it auto-renew every few days? And if it does, isn't this going to wreak hell with Windows SmartScreen which notoriously resets its trust settings when the certificate is changed. @vcsjones

So I managed to get my Trusted Signing certificate set up. Now I'm trying to actually use it and I can't get anything to work. Anybody been through this? Do you need to use Azure Key Vault (seems no? There's no way to import the cert into it) and if not what actually works…