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Load a Certificate from the Windows Certificate Store

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Demonstrates how to load a certificate that has been pre-installed in the registry-based Windows certificate store. This is generally how one would load a certificate that is stored on a smart card or usb token.

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Unicode C++
#include <CkCertW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkCertW cert;

    success = cert.LoadByCommonName(L"PIVKey 7ED53EC611D3F84396212C5842BB563F");
    if (success != true) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",cert.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"Loaded: %s\n",cert.subjectDN());
    }