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vshmelev
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Oct 12, 2020

Deployment by Appinstaller cause URI handling popup without the app link

I have a win32 app wrapped into MSIX by MSIX packaging tool for using the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/launch-resume/web-to-app-linking feature. After installing the app by .appinsta...
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vshmelev
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Oct 13, 2020

Chacon link sent in a direct message, hope it contains all necessary information.

Also want to say that after toggle of/Toggle On "Apps for websites" settings the popup view changed: there were listed browsers, but still not my application. 
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Nov 18, 2020

vshmelev 

 

This should work correctly with the Windows 10 October 2020 update. On previous builds there was an issue with AppUriHandler that caused it not to work when installing with an App Installer file, exactly as you described.

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    jvintzel
    Former Employee
    Feb 06, 2021

    vshmelev You may also want to verify the Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller app is installed.  You can do this by running the following command from PowerShell

     

    Get-AppPackage Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller

     

    We have seen power users bulk purge this when removing preinstalled apps.  It newer versions of Windows this will be non-removable to prevent accidental uninstall.

     

    John Vintzel (@jvintzel)
    PM Lead, MSIX

     

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