How to: Sign Application and Deployment Manifests with Mage.exe
Add-in developers who have installed a full version of Visual Studio or the Windows SDK can use the Manifest Generation and Editing Tool (Mage.exe) to sign their application and deployment manifests. Mage.exe is installed as part of the Windows SDK, which is installed as part of the default Visual Studio installation.
Signing Manifests
To sign a manifest with Mage.exe
Open a Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt window.
Change directories to the folder that contains the manifest file that you want to sign.
Type the following command to sign the manifest file. Replace ManifestFileName with the name of your manifest file plus the extension. Replace Certificate with the relative or fully qualified path to the certificate file.
mage -Sign ManifestFileName -CertFile Certificate -Password Password
For example, you could run the following command to sign a deployment manifest for Microsoft Office Excel.
mage -Sign ExcelAddin1.vsto -CertFile ..\ExcelAddIn1_TemporaryKey.pfx
See Also
Tasks
How to: Configure the ClickOnce Trust Prompt
Concepts
Securing and Deploying Add-Ins
Securing Add-ins by Using ClickOnce
Deploying Add-ins by Using ClickOnce
Walkthrough: Integrating ClickOnce for a Managed Object Model