An error occurred while signing: SignTool.exe was not found

An error occurred while signing: SignTool.exe was not found

Just got this error when trying to do a ClickOnce publish to a UNC path on a new installation on Visual Studio 2015, "An error occurred while signing: SignTool.exe was not found at path C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\signtool.exe.". Seems I'd forgotten to install the "ClickOne Publishing Tools", which is an easy fix. Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > Visual Studio 2015 > Right-click "Change" > Modify > ClickOne Publishing Tools...…

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Blend fails to open a Visual Studio 11 Beta project

I was needed to open a Visual Studio 11 Beta Metro project in Blend and got the error: The project ‘MyProject.csproj’ could not be opened. The imported project ‘C:Program Files (x86)MSBuildMicrosoftWindowsXamlv10.0Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml/CSharp.targets’ was not found. Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk. First thought was to edit the line that contains: v$(VisualStudioVersion)Microsoft.Windows.UI.Xaml.CSharp.targets" in my csproj file, c…

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HttpWebRequest causes System.NotSupportedException' occurred in System.Windows.dll.

When using HttpWebRequest asynchronously in a Windows Phone 7 app, the console in Visual Studio was outputting: A first chance exception of type 'System.NotSupportedException' occurred in System.Windows.dll The fix was basically adding AllowReadStreamBuffering = true to the HttpWebRequest object. For example: var request = HttpWebRequest.CreateHttp(feed.Url); request.AllowReadStreamBuffering = true; This error didn’t cause my app to crash or any other problems other than the “first chanc…

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