After VS2008 to VS2010 project upgrade getting "manifest signing certificate" error

Question

I created a test project with VS2008 C# Express on computer 1 (Vista).

I converted it to VS2010 C# Express on computer 2 (Windows 7).

The converted project gives me this error:

Unable to find manifest signing certificate in the certificate store.

I've found articles about signing project certificates etc. but they are not that helpful as I never explicitly signed any certificates with this project. It is just a small project (with a MDF database / LINQ-to-SQL) that I created with VS2008 C# Express.

I tried first deleting the .suo and the obj and bin directories of the original project before converting but I still gives the same error.

How can I stop the converted VS2010 project from trying to find a "manifest signing certificate in the certificate store"?

Answer 1

Try right click your project, click properties, go to signing, disable signing, save, then re-enable signing.