“File has a different computed hash than specified in manifest” error when signing the EXE

Question

My ClickOnce installation fails with an error:

File, WindowsFormsProject.exe, has a different computed hash than specified in manifest.

Answer 1

The credit goes to Dmitriy for his answer. However I had to make slight changes to Dmitry's answer to make it work for me. Specifically:

• I added an ending tag for "Target"
• I am using Windows 8.1, and had to change the signtool.exe path
• I am using a PFX file and had to specify the password
• I didn't need to add all of the info he provided

Please modify the values for "my_signing_file.pfx", "mypassword", "myexe.exe" and to make this work for you: