Visual Studio SignTool.exe Not Found

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Catquatwa picture Catquatwa · Aug 5, 2015 · Viewed 202.8k times · Source

I have completed an application I have made in Visual Studio 14.0, but when I tried to publish the program, I get an error as Visual Studio cannot find 'SignTool.exe'. I have searched my Hard drive a few times for this but it is nowhere on my PC. Can anyone help me find it or download it?

Answer

bhish picture bhish · Sep 5, 2015

I had the same issue but installing the Windows 8.1 SDK as per Catquatwa's answer did not work for me (signtool.exe was still missing from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\vX\Bin).

I stumbled across this solution: http://www.benedykt.net/2015/08/12/missing-signtool-exe-w-visual-studio-2015/

Basically, for VS 2015, this would be:

  • Open Programs and Features
  • Select "Microsoft Visual Studio 2015" and click "Change"
  • Press "Modify" to progress to Features options
  • Select "Windows and Web Development", then tick "ClickOnce Publishing Tools" for installation
  • Then "Next" and then "Update"

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