Get List of Certificate Store Names in C#

Question

I am able to get certificate collection in particulaer store by using the following statment.

X509Store.Certificates

But not sure how I can get the list of certificate store names present under current user or local machine. I also checked the StoreName enumeration but it only lists the standard store names but not the ones defined by the user.

I want the list of CERTIFICATE STORES, not the list of certificates in the particular store.

Answer 1

You need to get the certificates out of the store and then from there you can grab the certificate names.

X509Store store = new X509Store ("teststore", StoreLocation.CurrentUser);
X509Certificate2Collection storecollection = (X509Certificate2Collection)store.Certificates;
    Console.WriteLine ("Store name: {0}", store.Name);
    Console.WriteLine ("Store location: {0}", store.Location);
foreach (X509Certificate2 x509 in storecollection)
{
    Console.WriteLine("certificate name: {0}",x509.Subject);
}

Answer 2

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa376058(VS.85).aspx

Don't think there's a managed .net way of doing this. Possibly the closest may be to use .net's registry functions to read the store names from the registry?