TrustedRoots C# Reference Documentation

TrustedRoots

Current Version: 10.1.2

Used to set and manage the CA root certificates trusted by your application. This applies to PKCS7 (S/MIME) signature validation and SSL/TLS server certificates.

Object Creation

Chilkat.TrustedRoots obj = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots();

Properties

DebugLogFilePath
public string DebugLogFilePath {get; set; }

If set to a file path, this property logs the LastErrorText of each Chilkat method or property call to the specified file. This logging helps identify the context and history of Chilkat calls leading up to any crash or hang, aiding in debugging.

Enabling the VerboseLogging property provides more detailed information. This property is mainly used for debugging rare instances where a Chilkat method call causes a hang or crash, which should generally not happen.

Possible causes of hangs include:

  • A timeout property set to 0, indicating an infinite timeout.
  • A hang occurring within an event callback in the application code.
  • An internal bug in the Chilkat code causing the hang.

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LastErrorHtml
public string LastErrorHtml {get; }

Provides HTML-formatted information about the last called method or property. If a method call fails or behaves unexpectedly, check this property for details. Note that information is available regardless of the method call's success.

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LastErrorText
public string LastErrorText {get; }

Provides plain text information about the last called method or property. If a method call fails or behaves unexpectedly, check this property for details. Note that information is available regardless of the method call's success.

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LastErrorXml
public string LastErrorXml {get; }

Provides XML-formatted information about the last called method or property. If a method call fails or behaves unexpectedly, check this property for details. Note that information is available regardless of the method call's success.

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LastMethodSuccess
public bool LastMethodSuccess {get; set; }

Indicates the success or failure of the most recent method call: true means success, false means failure. This property remains unchanged by property setters or getters. This method is present to address challenges in checking for null or Nothing returns in certain programming languages.

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NumCerts
public int NumCerts {get; }
Introduced in version 9.5.0.38

The number of certificates contained within this object.

This is the number of certificates explicitly added by the methods AddCert, AddJavaKeyStore, and LoadCaCertsPem.

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RejectSelfSignedCerts
public bool RejectSelfSignedCerts {get; set; }
Introduced in version 9.5.0.80

Indicates whether all self-signed certificates are to be rejected in SSL/TLS connections. The default value of this property is false.

Note: This is for the case where the server certificate chain of authentication is 1 certificate long (i.e. the TLS server certificate itself is self-signed).

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TrustSystemCaRoots
public bool TrustSystemCaRoots {get; set; }
Introduced in version 9.5.0.41

Indicates whether the operating system's CA root certificates are automatically trusted.

On a Windows operating system, this would be the registry-based CA certificate stores. On a Linux system, this could be /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt, if it exists. The default value is true. Set this property equal to false to prevent Chilkat from automatically trusting system-provided root CA certificates.

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VerboseLogging
public bool VerboseLogging {get; set; }

If set to true, then the contents of LastErrorText (or LastErrorXml, or LastErrorHtml) may contain more verbose information. The default value is false. Verbose logging should only be used for debugging. The potentially large quantity of logged information may adversely affect peformance.

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Version
public string Version {get; }

Version of the component/library, such as "10.1.0"

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Methods

Activate
public bool Activate();
Introduced in version 9.5.0.38

Activates this collection of trusted roots as the set of CA and self-signed root certificates that are to be trusted Chilkat-wide for PKCS7 signature validation and SSL/TLS server certificate validation.

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AddCert
public bool AddCert(Cert cert);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.41

Adds a certificate to the collection of trusted roots.

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AddJavaKeyStore
public bool AddJavaKeyStore(JavaKeyStore keystore);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.44

Adds the trusted certificates from a Java key store to the collection of trusted roots.

Returns true for success, false for failure.

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AddJavaKeyStoreAsync (C#) (PowerShell)
public Task AddJavaKeyStoreAsync(JavaKeyStore keystore);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.44

Creates an asynchronous task to call the AddJavaKeyStore method with the arguments provided.

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns null on failure

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Deactivate
public bool Deactivate();
Introduced in version 9.5.0.40

Deactivates a previous set of activated trusted roots so that all roots / self-signed certificates are implicitly trusted.

Returns true for success, false for failure.

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GetCert
public Cert GetCert(int index);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.38

Returns the Nth cert contained within this object. The 1st certificate is at index 0.

Returns null on failure

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LoadCaCertsPem
public bool LoadCaCertsPem(string path);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.38

Loads a CA bundle in PEM format. This is a file containing CA root certificates that are to be trusted. An example of one such file is the CA certs from mozilla.org exported to a cacert.pem file by the mk-ca-bundle tool located here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html.

Note: This can also be called to load the /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt file on Linux systems.

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LoadCaCertsPemAsync (C#) (PowerShell)
public Task LoadCaCertsPemAsync(string path);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.38

Creates an asynchronous task to call the LoadCaCertsPem method with the arguments provided.

Note: Async method event callbacks happen in the background thread. Accessing and updating UI elements existing in the main thread may require special considerations.

Returns null on failure

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LoadTaskCaller
public bool LoadTaskCaller(Task task);
Introduced in version 9.5.0.80

Loads the caller of the task's async method.

Returns true for success, false for failure.

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Events

AbortCheck
public event AbortCheckEventHandler OnAbortCheck;

Provides the opportunity for a method call to be aborted. The AbortCheck event is fired periodically based on the value of the HeartbeatMs property. If HeartbeatMs is 0, then no AbortCheck events will fire. As an example, to fire 5 AbortCheck events per second, set the HeartbeatMs property equal to 200.

Chilkat .NET Framework Event Implementation

Args are passed using Chilkat.AbortCheckEventArgs

Event callback implementation:

private void trustedroots_OnAbortCheck(object sender, Chilkat.AbortCheckEventArgs args)
	{
	    // application code goes here.
	}

To add an event handler:

Chilkat.TrustedRoots trustedroots = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots();
trustedroots.OnAbortCheck += trustedroots_OnAbortCheck;

Chilkat .NET Core Event Implementation

Event callback implementation:

public void handleAbortCheck(out bool abort)
	{
	    // application code goes here.
	}

To add an event handler:

Chilkat.TrustedRoots trustedroots = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots();
// ...
Chilkat.TrustedRoots.AbortCheck abortCheck = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots.AbortCheck(handleAbortCheck);
trustedroots.setAbortCheckCb(abortCheck);
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PercentDone
public event PercentDoneEventHandler OnPercentDone;

Provides the percentage completed for any method that involves network communications or time-consuming processing (assuming it is a method where a percentage completion can be measured). This event is only fired when it is possible to know a percentage completion, and when it makes sense to express the operation as a percentage completed. The pctDone argument will have a value from 1 to 100. For operations (Chilkat method calls) that complete very quickly, the number of PercentDone callbacks will vary, but the final callback should have a value of 100. For long running operations, no more than one callback per percentage point will occur (for example: 1, 2, 3, ... 98, 99, 100).

The PercentDone callback counts as an AbortCheck event. For method calls that complete quickly such that PercentDone events fire, it may be that AbortCheck events don't fire because the opportunity to abort is already provided in the PercentDone callback. For time consuming operations, where the amount of time between PercentDone callbacks are long, AbortCheck callbacks may be used to allow for the operation to be aborted in a more responsive manner.

The abort output argument provides a means for aborting the operation. Setting it to true will cause the method to abort and return a failed status (or whatever return value indicates failure).

Chilkat .NET Framework Event Implementation

Args are passed using Chilkat.PercentDoneEventArgs

Event callback implementation:

private void trustedroots_OnPercentDone(object sender, Chilkat.PercentDoneEventArgs args)
	{
	    // application code goes here.
	}

To add an event handler:

Chilkat.TrustedRoots trustedroots = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots();
trustedroots.OnPercentDone += trustedroots_OnPercentDone;

Chilkat .NET Core Event Implementation

Event callback implementation:

public void handlePercentDone(int pctDone, out bool abort)
	{
	    // application code goes here.
	}

To add an event handler:

Chilkat.TrustedRoots trustedroots = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots();
// ...
Chilkat.TrustedRoots.PercentDone percentDone = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots.PercentDone(handlePercentDone);
trustedroots.setPercentDoneCb(percentDone);
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ProgressInfo
public event ProgressInfoEventHandler OnProgressInfo;

A general name/value event that provides information about what is happening during a method call. To find out what information is available, write code to handle this event and log the name/value pairs. Most are self-explanatory.

Chilkat .NET Framework Event Implementation

Args are passed using Chilkat.ProgressInfoEventArgs

Event callback implementation:

private void trustedroots_OnProgressInfo(object sender, Chilkat.ProgressInfoEventArgs args)
	{
	    // application code goes here.
	}

To add an event handler:

Chilkat.TrustedRoots trustedroots = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots();
trustedroots.OnProgressInfo += trustedroots_OnProgressInfo;

Chilkat .NET Core Event Implementation

Event callback implementation:

public void handleProgressInfo(string name, string value)
	{
	    // application code goes here.
	}

To add an event handler:

Chilkat.TrustedRoots trustedroots = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots();
// ...
Chilkat.TrustedRoots.ProgressInfo progressInfo = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots.ProgressInfo(handleProgressInfo);
trustedroots.setProgressInfoCb(progressInfo);
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TaskCompleted
public event TaskCompletedEventHandler OnTaskCompleted;

Called in the background thread when an asynchronous task completes.

Chilkat .NET Framework Event Implementation

Args are passed using Chilkat.TaskCompletedEventArgs

Event callback implementation:

private void trustedroots_OnTaskCompleted(object sender, Chilkat.TaskCompletedEventArgs args)
	{
	    // application code goes here.
	}

To add an event handler:

Chilkat.TrustedRoots trustedroots = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots();
trustedroots.OnTaskCompleted += trustedroots_OnTaskCompleted;

Chilkat .NET Core Event Implementation

Event callback implementation:

public void handleTaskIdCompleted(int taskId)
	{
	    // application code goes here.
	}

To add an event handler:

Chilkat.TrustedRoots trustedroots = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots();
// ...
Chilkat.TrustedRoots.TaskIdCompleted taskIdCompleted = new Chilkat.TrustedRoots.TaskIdCompleted(handleTaskIdCompleted);
trustedroots.setTaskIdCompletedCb(taskIdCompleted);
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