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Load Certificate from .cer and Private Key from .pem

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Load a certificate from a .cer and its associated private key from a .pem.

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Unicode C
#include <C_CkCertW.h>
#include <C_CkStringBuilderW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkCertW cert;
    HCkStringBuilderW sbPem;

    success = FALSE;

    cert = CkCertW_Create();
    success = CkCertW_LoadFromFile(cert,L"C:/certs_and_keys/Certificate.cer");
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkCertW_lastErrorText(cert));
        CkCertW_Dispose(cert);
        return;
    }

    sbPem = CkStringBuilderW_Create();
    success = CkStringBuilderW_LoadFile(sbPem,L"C:/certs_and_keys/PrivateKey.pem",L"utf-8");
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"Failed to load private key PEM\n");
        CkCertW_Dispose(cert);
        CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbPem);
        return;
    }

    success = CkCertW_SetPrivateKeyPem(cert,CkStringBuilderW_getAsString(sbPem));
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkCertW_lastErrorText(cert));
        CkCertW_Dispose(cert);
        CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbPem);
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"The certificate and associated private key are now loaded and ready for signing.\n");


    CkCertW_Dispose(cert);
    CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbPem);

    }