Summary
In this chapter, you’ve learned to associate your contact information to your application, while at the same time ensuring the integrity of your built Visual Basic .NET application by Authenticode signing your application with an X.509 certificate. The X.509 certificate gives reassurance to your customers that you are who you say you are and that the application hasn’t been tampered with sometime during the download process to the customer’s computer. In addition, you learned that you can apply a strong name to your application, which provides added integrity checking and protects against someone being able to spoof a Visual Basic .NET component by replacing it with another component with exactly the same name (or with exactly the same ...
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