Error MSB4044 RemoveDisposableSigningCertificate

Hello.

I’ve been developing a game for a long time with builds uploaded to Microsoft with UWP. The VS project built from Unity has now problem. Now I’m getting this error with a new build with Visual Studio 2022 when generating the UWP generated build:

Error MSB4044 A value was not specified for the task “RemoveDisposableSigningCertificate” for the required “CertificateThumbprint” parameter. Math Classroom Challenge C:\Program Files Microsoft Visual Studio 2022CommunityMSBuild Microsoft Visual Studio 17.0AppxPackage Microsoft.AppXPackage.Targets 942

I’ve been looking for a solution, nothing that works. This happens with W11 last version with Unity 2023.3.56 and Unity 6.0.34.

Any hint of what could it be? Thank you.

Verified that it happens on a clean new UWP project with nothing but a cube. This is not related to Unity but to Visual Studio 2024 as it seems.

Even I am facing the same issue from Jan 20 2025. When we Associate App with Store this happens.
Microsoft has to fix this.

There are people complaining about this in the Visual Studio Forums:

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/While-creating-package-facing-error-Rem/10830082?q=RemoveDisposableSigningCertificate

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