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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Cross Domain Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugging

Some software I wrote a while ago had a feature break on a single machine, so I needed to remotely debug it today. I have VPN access but my development VM isn’t a member of their domain, which causes an authentication error when you try to connect to the remote machine. To remedy this you need to complete a few steps. Prepare The Remote Computer If you haven’t done already, download and install the Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Remote Debugger on the remote machine. You’ll also need an acc…

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