Setting Certificate Friendly Name

Question

Im trying to set the certificate friendly name during the certificate request/acceptance process. I understand that this a property of the microsoft store rather than the certificate and an wondering what .net/c# technique might be used to set it.

Answer 1

Use X509Certificate2.FriendlyName. However, you must export the certificate as PFX/PKCS#12:

X509Certificate2 certificate = new X509Certificate2(...);
certificate.FriendlyName = "MyName";
File.WriteAllBytes(path, certificate.Export(X509ContentType.Pkcs12));