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BrianShekkt
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Dec 05, 2020

Error parsing app package

  I have been all over the other threads about this question but nothing seems to fix my problem. No matter what I do, my .appinstaller doesn't work. I keep getting : Error in parsing the app ...
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TIMOTHY_MANGAN
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Jun 01, 2021

BrianShekkt I have been working with AppInstaller files and at a glance your syntax looks reasonable to me. I do have a couple of ideas to test for where the problem might be..

 

First, You can probably remove the xmlns reference for the schema.  Yeah, it *should* be there but I've found that removing it works and keeps the file from being rejected on backrev systems.

 

Second, I'm not working with bundles, but what you wrote looks correct (I just haven't tried that).  You might try a MainPackage with a .appx file from your bundle to determine if this is the area of the problem.

 

Third  is the value for HoursBetweenUpdateChecks.  Although documentation covers the 0 case, it could be the problem and maybe you should try a 1 to see if that is the cause (or eliminate the value as it is optional and defaults to 4 hours).

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