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  • Wednesday, July 04, 2012 9:53 PM
     
     
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    Hi I am trying to create a certificate for my metro app while transferring it from my win8 machine to a tablet.

    I am following the instructions in this link

    http://peterdn.com/post/To-make-a-Metro-Appx-Package-from-scratch-you-must-first-e280a6.aspx

    After I create the root certificate and the client certificate ,when I try to sign the app using the signtool commandline utility,I am receiving the following error.

    Error information: "Error: SignerSign() failed." (-2147024885/0x8007000b)

    It is working fine for me when I deployed a sample JS app from my win8 machine to the tablet.

    The app which I am trying to deploy has 2 projects including a BGTask.Is the problem related to that?

    Can someone suggest what I might be doing wrong?




    • Edited by gaurav_kl Wednesday, July 04, 2012 9:53 PM
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  • Friday, July 06, 2012 11:57 PM
     
     
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    Are you using Visual Studio to develop your app? If so, you can right-click on the project, go to Store-->Create App Package to create packages for your app. As part of packaging in VS, it also automatically signs the output package with a generated test certificate.

     
  • Thursday, July 12, 2012 6:42 PM
     
     
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    Hi Gaurav,

    You can look in the Event log, "Event Viewer (Local) > Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > AppxPackagingOM >
    Microsoft-Windows-AppxPackaging/Operational" for more detailed error information.

    A common reason for this error can be that the Publisher name for your app in the AppxManifest.xml file ( value under Package/Identity/@Publisher ) does not match the subject name of the signing certificate.

    Thanks, Ali Naqvi