Visual Studio 2017 gives 'Adding the Certificate to The Trusted Root Certificates store failed with the following Errror'

Question

I am trying to run ASP MVC application with SSL mode set to true and whenever i run the application, i get prompt to trust the IIS Express SSL certificate. Upon clicking Yes

Answer 1

You can use powershell to move the certificate from the personal store to the trusted (root) store.

$cert = (Get-Childitem cert:\LocalMachine\My | Where-Object { $_.subject -eq 'localhost' }).Thumbprint
copy-item -path cert:\LocalMachine\My\$cert -Destination cert:\LocalMachine\Root\