Auto-update an app package with a Windows service

Hi, Using the MSIX latest packaging tool, I managed to convert our Win32 installer, which contains a Windows service, into an app package. We'd like to take advantage of the app installer functio...

Tanaka_Jimha
Nov 18, 2020
Hi adelkeita

Installing a package with a Windows service using the App Installer file is supported. Restarting your machine may fix the error. To help us investigate the issue, can you please make a Feedback Hub submission in the Developer Platform > App Deployment category, while reproducing the error. And then can you please post the link to your Feedback Hub submission on here when you're done.

Thanks,
Tanaka

Tanaka_Jimha

Former Employee

Nov 24, 2020

Hi adelkeita

Thanks for filing the feedback. I'm forwarding it to our devs to look into the issue. Did a machine restart not change anything for you?

Glad to hear the video tutorials were helpful 🙂

Cheers,

Tanaka

adelkeita

Brass Contributor

Nov 25, 2020

Hi Tanaka_Jimha

Two days ago I was still having the issue after restarting my PC.

Yesterday I tried many things... I did restart my workstation, I have reset the Feedback hub (had some issues), I've done all of the updates in the Store, I made some changes in the Azure App Service configuration settings (changed from ASP to .NET Core, 64-bit with Web sockets).

Then after restarting my workstation, and modifying the "UpdateSettings" part of the app installer file, I managed to make it work with this configuration:

<UpdateSettings>
     <OnLaunch HoursBetweenUpdateChecks="0" ShowPrompt="false" UpdateBlocksActivation="false"/>
</UpdateSettings>

We would like to always update this app package silently without any user input.

I noticed that I'm getting error 0x80D05011, if I do this:

  <UpdateSettings>
     <OnLaunch HoursBetweenUpdateChecks="0"/>
  </UpdateSettings>

And I get error 0xC00CEE01:

error 0xC00CEE01: The XML in the .appinstaller file is not valid ... Reason: Unexpected end of input. (0xc00cee01)

if I do this:

  <UpdateSettings>
     <OnLaunch HoursBetweenUpdateChecks="0" ShowPrompt="false" UpdateBlocksActivation="false"/>
     <ForceUpdateFromAnyVersion>true</ForceUpdateFromAnyVersion>
  </UpdateSettings>

or this:

  <UpdateSettings>
     <OnLaunch HoursBetweenUpdateChecks="0" ShowPrompt="false" UpdateBlocksActivation="false"/>
     <AutomaticBackgroundTask />
  </UpdateSettings>

I don't know why I can't use these 2 attributes "ForceUpdateFromAnyVersion" and "AutomaticBackgroundTask".

Would it be possible to get "ForceUpdateFromAnyVersion" to work?

Thanks.

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Auto-update an app package with a Windows service