X509Certificate2.TryExportCertificatePem(Span<Char>, Int32) Method

Reference

Definition

Namespace:: System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates

Assembly:: System.Security.Cryptography.dll

Source:: X509Certificate2.cs

Source:: X509Certificate2.cs

Source:: X509Certificate2.cs

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Attempts to export the public X.509 certificate, encoded as PEM.

public:
 bool TryExportCertificatePem(Span<char> destination, [Runtime::InteropServices::Out] int % charsWritten);

public bool TryExportCertificatePem (Span<char> destination, out int charsWritten);

member this.TryExportCertificatePem : Span<char> * int -> bool

Public Function TryExportCertificatePem (destination As Span(Of Char), ByRef charsWritten As Integer) As Boolean

Parameters

destination: Span<Char>

The buffer to receive the PEM encoded certificate.

charsWritten: Int32

When this method returns, the total number of characters written to destination.

Returns

Boolean

true if destination was large enough to receive the encoded PEM; otherwise, false.

Exceptions

CryptographicException

The certificate is corrupt, in an invalid state, or could not be exported to PEM.

Remarks

A PEM-encoded X.509 certificate will begin with -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- and end with -----END CERTIFICATE-----, with the base64 encoded DER contents of the certificate between the PEM boundaries.

          The certificate is encoded according to the IETF RFC 7468 "strict" encoding rules.

Applies to