X509Certificate Class
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Provides methods that help you use X.509 version 3 certificates.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
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.509 version 3 certificate. |
| X509Certificate(IntPtr) | Security Critical. Initializes a new instance of the X509Certificate class using a handle to an unmanaged PCCERT_CONTEXT structure. |
| X509Certificate(String) | Security Critical. Initializes a new instance of the X509Certificate class using a using a certificate file name. |
| X509Certificate(X509Certificate) | Initializes a new instance of the X509Certificate class using another X509Certificate class. |
| X509Certificate(array<Byte>, String) | Initializes a new instance of the X509Certificate class using a byte array and a password. |
| X509Certificate(String, String) | Security Critical. Initializes a new instance of the X509Certificate class by using a certificate file name and a password to access the certificate. |
| X509Certificate(array<Byte>, String, X509KeyStorageFlags) | Initializes a new instance of the X509Certificate class using a byte array, a password, and a key storage flag. |
| X509Certificate(String, String, X509KeyStorageFlags) | Security Critical. Initializes a new instance of the X509Certificate class using a certificate file name, a password used to access the certificate, and a key storage flag. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Handle | Gets a handle to a Microsoft Cryptographic API certificate context described by an unmanaged PCCERT_CONTEXT structure. |
| Issuer | Gets the name of the certificate authority that issued the X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| Subject | Gets the subject distinguished name from the certificate. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | CreateFromCertFile | Security Critical. Creates an X.509 version 3 certificate from the specified certification file. |
 | CreateHexString | Infrastructure. Creates a hexadecimal string from the specified byte array. |
| Equals(Object) | Compares two X509Certificate objects for equality. (Overrides Object::Equals(Object).) |
| Equals(X509Certificate) | Compares two X509Certificate objects for equality. |
| Export(X509ContentType) | Exports the current X509Certificate object to a byte array in a format described by one of the X509ContentType values. |
| Export(X509ContentType, String) | Exports the current X509Certificate object to a byte array in a format described by one of the X509ContentType values, and using the specified password. |
| Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetCertHash | Returns the hash value for the X.509 version 3 certificate as an array of bytes. |
| GetCertHashString | Returns the hash value for the X.509 version 3 certificate as a hexadecimal string. |
| GetEffectiveDateString | Returns the effective date of this X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetExpirationDateString | Returns the expiration date of this X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetFormat | Returns the name of the format of this X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetHashCode | Returns the hash code for the X.509 version 3 certificate as an integer. (Overrides Object::GetHashCode().) |
| GetKeyAlgorithm | Returns the key algorithm information for this X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetKeyAlgorithmParameters | Returns the key algorithm parameters for the X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetKeyAlgorithmParametersString | Returns the key algorithm parameters for the X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetPublicKey | Returns the public key for the X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetPublicKeyString | Returns the public key for the X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetRawCertData | Returns the raw data for the entire X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetRawCertDataString | Returns the raw data for the entire X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetSerialNumber | Returns the serial number of the X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetSerialNumberString | Returns the serial number of the X.509 version 3 certificate. |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| Import(array<Byte>) | Populates the X509Certificate object with data from a byte array. |
| Import(String) | Security Critical. Populates the X509Certificate object with information from a certificate file. |
| Import(array<Byte>, String, X509KeyStorageFlags) | Populates the X509Certificate object using data from a byte array, a password, and flags for determining how the private key is imported. |
| Import(String, String, X509KeyStorageFlags) | Security Critical. Populates the X509Certificate object with information from a certificate file, a password, and a X509KeyStorageFlags value. |
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| ToString() | Returns a string representation of the current X509Certificate object. (Overrides Object::ToString().) |
| ToString(Boolean) | Returns a string representation of the current X509Certificate object, with extra information, if specified. |
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