Visual Studio Signing with LetsEncrypt.org SSL Certificate

I am completely new to digital signatures, and I am trying to make my .NET application safe when people run it on different computers. I created Let Encrypt myself and it works as expected on my web page. After various resources, I converted the certificate to PFX and tried to use it for digital signing, but then VS screams that "the selected certificate file is not valid for signing the code." When I launched SignTool in my EXE file, I got an error "No certificates were found that met all the criteria set", and debugging showed that my certificate did not pass the EKU filter.

Am I trying to achieve what I am trying to achieve? And if so, what am I doing wrong?

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LetsEncrypt is intended only for "TLS server authentication certificates only, and not for any other purpose." They do not support code signing certificates. https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/code-signing-certificates/815 as well as https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/do-you-support-code-signing/370

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