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Windows Certificate Stores - Find Certificate by Common Name

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Searches the Windows certificate stores for a certificate that matches the specified common name (CN).

Note: This example requires Chilkat v10.0.0 or greater.

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bool success = false;

Chilkat.Cert cert = new Chilkat.Cert();
success = cert.LoadByCommonName("Chilkat Software, Inc.");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(cert.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine(cert.SubjectDN);
Debug.WriteLine("Success.");