Windows 10 app

Create certificate for automated build of UWP app

Visual Studio 2019 improved build of UWP applications for Windows 10. Good news is that it is possible to build the project without need for temporary certificate. This is useful for automated builds validating pull requests. When validating pull-request, I simply build the project without creating APPX package. In Visual Studio 2017 this used to fail because of missing certificate to sign the package. So I had to create a self-signed certificate. However, in Visual Studio 2019 no APPX package signing is done by default, and thus no certificate is needed.

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