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bvenhaus
Dec 14, 2021Copper Contributor
The ms-appinstaller protocol has been disabled.
I just found out that users can no longer install my MSIX from my website. This is a WPF application packaged with "Windows Application Packaging Project" (wapproj). When users click the "Get the app...
- Dec 15, 2021
bvenhaus Thank you for your question. We removed the ms-appinstaller custom scheme due to a security vulnerability. We do intend to bring this back, and are working on it. For now, you can update the link on your website by removing 'ms-appinstaller:?source='
<html> <body> <h1> MyApp Web Page </h1> <a href="http://mywebservice.azureedge.net/HubApp.msix"> Install app package </a> <a href="http://mywebservice.azureedge.net/HubAppBundle.msixbundle"> Install app bundle </a> <a href="http://mywebservice.azureedge.net/HubAppSet.appinstaller"> Install related set </a> </body> </html>
DuncanStone
Dec 15, 2021Copper Contributor
Anyone found a workaround for the wapproj generated html? I dont love having to edit it every time I deploy a test build.