How to install SignTool exe for Windows 10

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How to install SignTool exe in Visual Studio 2015 for Windown 10  I tried to build my project but the program threw an error       Error     An error occurred while signing  SignTool exe not found

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In 2019  this is a quite recent link from Microsoft about how to obtain this tool      The SignTool tool is a command-line tool that digitally signs files    verifies signatures in files  or time stamps files  For information   about why signing files is important  see Introduction to Code   Signing  The tool is installed in the  Bin folder of the Microsoft   Windows Software Development Kit  SDK  installation path       SignTool is available as part of the Windows SDK  which you can   download from https   go microsoft com fwlink p  linkid 84091    I only needed signtool  so I chose the minimal I came up with and signtool exe is now in C  Program Files Microsoft SDKs Windows v7 1 Bin signtool exe    Microsoft article link  https   docs microsoft com en-us windows win32 seccrypto signtool

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If you only want SignTool and really want to minimize the install  here is a way that I just reverse-engineered my way to    Download the  iso file from https   developer microsoft com en-us windows downloads windows-10-sdk  current download link is http   go microsoft com fwlink p  LinkID 2022797  The  exe download will not work  since it s an online installer that pulls down its dependencies at runtime  Unpack the  iso with a tool such as 7-zip  Install the Installers Windows SDK Signing Tools-x86 en-us msi file - it s only 388 KiB large  For reference  it pulls in its files from the following  cab files  so these are also needed for a standalone install    4c3ef4b2b1dc72149f979f4243d2accf cab  339 KiB  685f3d4691f444bc382762d603a99afc cab  1002 KiB  e5c4b31ff9997ac5603f4f28cd7df602 cab  389 KiB  e98fa5eb5fee6ce17a7a69d585870b7c cab  1 2 MiB     There we go - you will now have the signtool exe file and companions in C  Program Files  x86  Windows Kits 10 bin 10 0 17763 0 x64  replace x64 with x86  arm or arm64 if you need it for another CPU architecture      It is also possible to commit  signtool exe and the other files from this folder into your version control repository if want to use it in e g  CI scenarios  I have tried it and it seems to work fine    All files are probably not necessary since there are also some other  exe tools in this folder that might be responsible for these dependencies  but I am not sure which ones could be removed to make the set of files even smaller  Someone else is free to investigate further in this area     I tried to just copy signtool   and that didn t work  so at least some of the other files are needed

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April 28th 2020   I found it here   C  Program Files  x86  Windows Kits 10 App Certification Kit

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Best solution end of 2020  Just download Windows 10 SDK from Microsoft here  https   go microsoft com fwlink  LinkID 698771 In setup  choose only Windows App Certification App  it s only 120 MB   You can find signtool exe here   PROGRAMFILES X86   Windows Kits 10 bin x64 Cheers

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It s available many  many places  depending upon what is installed  On my box  every one except the v6 0A SDK version supports the  fd option

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It s 2019 now    For anyone wondering  here s where you ll find it   C  Program Files  x86  Windows Kits 10 App Certification Kit  Screenshot          Edit  Still in the same place in 2020

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You should go to Control Panel -  Programs and Features  find Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and select  Change   Visual Studio 2015 setup will start  Select  Modify    In Visual Studio components list  open the list of sub-items and select   ClickOnce Publication Tools  and   Windows 10 SDK  too

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to install just the signingtools from the winsdksetup exe  available at the same url as the windows sdk iso mentioned above  this is an option to  straight from the Dockerfile i m working in  RUN powershell Start-Process winsdksetup exe -ArgumentList   features OptionId SigningTools     q     ceip off     norestart   -NoNewWindow -Wait so if you re in windows then that d be  winsdksetup exe  features OptionId SigningTools winsdksetup  h gives you the options  so i won t summarise them here  I include the dockerfile snippet  as that is what i started my day looking for the solution for

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If you re using VS Express 2015  just go to your control panel --  programs and features --  select vs 2015 --  click change  then in the VS Express installer select  Modify  --  select Publishing tools  and finish   Once setup completes the changes you will be able to create your installer

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I did a modify with the Visual Studio from Control Panel  Programs and Features   The SDK was not at first apparent so I installed the Common Tools which lo and behold did include the SDK Update 3

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You need to install the Windows 10 SDK     Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 contains it already  but it is not installed by default  You should go to Control Panel -  Programs and Features  find Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 and select  Change     Visual Studio 2015 setup will start  Select  Modify    In Visual Studio components list find  Universal Windows App Development Tools   open the list of sub-items and select  Windows 10 SDK  10 0 10240     Windows 10 SDK in VS 2015 Update 1 Setup   Of cause you can install Windows 10 SDK directly from Microsoft  https   go microsoft com fwlink  LinkID 698771    As josant already wrote - when the installation finishes you will find the SignTool exe in the folders    x86 -  c  Program Files  x86  Windows Kits 10 bin x86 x64 -  c  Program Files  x86  Windows Kits 10 bin x64

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As per the comments in the question    On Windows 10 Signtool exe and other SDK tools have been moved into   programfiles x86   Windows Kits     Typical path to signtool on Windows 10    32 bit    c  Program Files  x86  Windows Kits 10 bin x86 signtool exe  64 bit    c  Program Files  x86  Windows Kits 10 bin x64 signtool exe    Tools for SDK 8 0 and 8 1 also reside in the  Windows Kits  folder

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Location   C  Program Files  x86  Windows Kits 10 App Certification Kit signtool exe

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SignTool is available as part of the Windows SDK  which comes with Visual Studio Community 2015   Make sure to select the  ClickOnce Publishing Tools  from the feature list during the installation of Visual Studio 2015 to get the SignTool     Once Visual Studio is installed you can run the signtool command from the Visual Studio Command Prompt    By default  on Windows 10  the SignTool will be installed in    C  Program Files  x86  Windows Kits 10 bin x86 signtool exe

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