X509Certificate Class

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Provides methods that help you use X.509 v.3 certificates.

Inheritance Hierarchy

Namespace: System.Security.Cryptography.X509Certificates
Assembly: Microsoft.SPOT.Native (in Microsoft.SPOT.Native.dll)

'Declaration
Public Class X509Certificate

public class X509Certificate

public ref class X509Certificate

type X509Certificate =  class end

public class X509Certificate

The X509Certificate type exposes the following members.

	Name	Description
	X509Certificate() () () ()	Initializes a new instance of the X509Certificate class.
	X509Certificate(array<Byte> [] () [] [])	Initializes a new instance of the X509Certificate class defined from a sequence of bytes representing an X.509v3 certificate.
	X509Certificate(array<Byte> [] () [] [], String)	Initializes a new instance of the X509Certificate class using a byte array and a password.

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	Name	Description
	Issuer	Gets the name of the certificate authority that issued the X.509v3 certificate.
	Subject	Gets the subject distinguished name from the certificate.

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	Name	Description
	Equals(Object)	Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetEffectiveDate	Retrieves the effective date of the certificate.
	GetExpirationDate	Retrieves the expiration date of the certificate.
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetRawCertData	Returns the raw data for the entire X.509v3 certificate.
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object.)

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	Name	Description
	m_effectiveDate	Contains the effective date of the certificate.
	m_expirationDate	Contains the expiration date of the certificate.
	m_handle	Contains the handle.
	m_issuer	Contains the certificate issuer.
	m_sessionHandle	Contains the session handle.
	m_subject	Contains the subject.

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ASN.1 DER is the only certificate format supported by this class.

For most scenarios, you should use the X509Certificate2 class instead.

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.