Get List of Certificate Store Names in C#

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Imran picture Imran · Oct 27, 2010 · Viewed 11.6k times · Source

I am able to get certificate collection in particulaer store by using the following statment.

X509Store.Certificates

But not sure how I can get the list of certificate store names present under current user or local machine. I also checked the StoreName enumeration but it only lists the standard store names but not the ones defined by the user.

I want the list of CERTIFICATE STORES, not the list of certificates in the particular store.

Answer

dotalchemy picture dotalchemy · Oct 28, 2010

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376058(VS.85).aspx

Don't think there's a managed .net way of doing this. Possibly the closest may be to use .net's registry functions to read the store names from the registry?

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