How to safely open-source a Windows Store app Visual Studio project

Question

I have a Windows Store app (http://lanscan.rcook.org/) that I am contemplating making open source so that the community can contribute to it and/or learn from my experience. I have realized after scanning through the source code that there are various parts of the repository that would be inappropriate to publish via GitHub or other open-source hosting services. At the very least, code-signing artifacts such as .pfx files would need to be stripped out as these would allow malicious individuals to publish new versions of the app to the Windows Store under my account by masquerading as me.

Does anybody have a definitive list of what files within a Windows Store app's Visual Studio solution are not safe to make public in this way? Are there parts of the .sln or .csproj files I should strip out of the project? As with any private information, this would all need to be removed from the repository and its history.

Answer 1

The recent version of .gitignore for Visual Studio projects can be found here:

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio.gitignore

It contains filenames like *.pfx etc. Also make sure that there is no Certificate Password set in .csrpoj