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How to run Client Server application with MSIX
I am trying to make an MSIX run with a client/server application. Why, we want to run multiple versions with different network share next to each other. They use the same registrykeys and therefor w...
Yes, you are right, we don't support this scenario yet. I will capture it.
One more clarification please, how the user finds the shortcut if you deploy it with the MSIX package (it will be under the WindowsApps folder that a regular user don't have permissions for)? Are you coping it to the desktop when the app starts?
Thanks,
Vlad
One more clarification please, how the user finds the shortcut if you deploy it with the MSIX package (it will be under the WindowsApps folder that a regular user don't have permissions for)? Are you coping it to the desktop when the app starts?
Thanks,
Vlad
Hi Vlad,
I forgot to say that for the shortcut I use a man in the middle exe made by Winbatch compiler. It only contains the exepath and wortking folder and runs that. So the shortcut points towards an exe local in the container and that exe starts the exe on the share.
That is how I got the shortcut.
- Hi Rudi,
Did you create the shortcut outside the MSIX package on the desktop? (Otherwise if it is inside the MSIX package the user won't have access to it). Also, to point to the man in the middle .exe inside the MSIX package you have to create an appExecutionAlias for the application and set it is the Targetpath in the shortcut - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/modernize/desktop-to-uwp-extensions#elements-and-attributes-of-this-extension-15
Thanks,
Vlad