How to sign a UWP app for sideloading using Trusted Signing?

Kevin 16 Reputation points
2024-07-22T10:50:19.9866667+00:00

We need to sign a UWP app for sideloading. Previously we have used a local certificate on our build machine and the build property:

<PackageCertificateThumbprint>XXXX</PackageCertificateThumbprint>

(This is configured in the .appxmanifest file for our UWP application and is currently used during the msbuild step.)

However the approach with the Azure Devops Trusted Signing task seems to be to use the azure pipelines task after the build has finished.

The problem is that our build won't complete without already having the matching certificate installed.

Please can you let me know the approach for integrating a Trusted Signing certificate with our UWP app?

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Azure Trusted Signing
Trusted Signing is a Microsoft fully managed, end-to-end signing solution that simplifies the certificate signing process and helps partner developers more easily build and distribute applications.
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