How to create MSI in VS 2008 to install a certificate in the Trusted Publisher store on a client machine?

Question

What are the steps required to create the installation and deployment file for MSI VS 2008 to install the personalized certificate / key generated on the client machine?

Answer 1

• The right way is to use Wix3 instead of the Visual Studio deployment project, Wix has a certificate element that is pretty stable.
• If you still want to use the Visual Studio Deploy Project, see this answer on how to install certificates using C #. You will need to deform this code inside the installer class and its sequence within the deployment project .