Certificate.CreateFromPemFile Method (String)

Creates a new instance of the Certificate class by reading a certificate from a PEM encoded file.

[Visual Basic]
Overloads Public Shared Function CreateFromPemFile( _
ByVal filename As String _
) As Certificate

[C#]
public static Certificate CreateFromPemFile(
string filename
);

A Certificate instance.

This implementation only reads certificates from PEM files. It does not read the private key from the certificate file, if one is present.

Exception Type	Condition
ArgumentNullException	filename if a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).
IOException	An error occurs while reading from the file.
CertificateException	An error occurs while reading the certificate from the PEM blob.