How to create a minimal dummy X509Certificate2?

Question

I\'m unit testing a .NET application; some of the unit tests involve programmatically generating X509Certificate2 objects.

I don\'t care about actual signing/private

Answer 1

There is one more simple way of doing it.

1. Create a Certificate using MakeCert or export any existing certificate.
2. Add the Certificate in Project (App_Data folder).
3. Follow below steps to get the certificate.

Code:

        string certificate = "cert.pfx";
        string certPath = string.Format("{0}/App_Data/{1}", HttpRuntime.AppDomainAppPath, certificate);
        byte[] bytes = Util.FileToArray(certPath);
        X509Certificate2 publicKey = new X509Certificate2(bytes, "somepassoword");