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adelkeita
Brass Contributor
Nov 17, 2020
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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's avatar
    Tanaka_Jimha
    Nov 19, 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

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adelkeita
Brass Contributor
Nov 24, 2020

Hi Tanaka_Jimha 

 

Can you please help me solve this issue?

Here's the Feedback hub as requested: http://aka.ms/AAaeifp

 

I have attached a video of the issue, the app package file and more.

I don't know what's wrong with my Azure config.

 

Thank you.

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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

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    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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