>>Where did the string come from ?
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>I do a select and it goes into a datarow such as:
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>loRow("CertificateFieldHere")
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>Then, from this, I would like to be able to pass it directly to the X509Certificate.CreateFromCertFile() method. The goal is then to avoid dumping into the disk and pass a file.

But you still haven't told me what is in the string.......