Managing Certificates and Certificate Contexts
When you're working with certificates, you usually are actually working with a certificate context. In reality, you are working with a pointer to a certificate context. This normally makes this entire area of functionality a problem for Visual Basic programmers. However, rarely do you need to manipulate anything in the certificate context structure. You therefore can treat the pointer to the context structure as a long variable and just pass this variable value around. Using the pointer this way frees up a lot of certificate functionality so that it can be used with Visual Basic.
Creating a Certificate Context
When you have an encoded certificate, like the certificate retrieved from the Certificate ...
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