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bvenhaus
Copper Contributor
Dec 14, 2021
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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...
  • Aditi_Narvekar's avatar
    Aditi_Narvekar
    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>

     

     

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Reilly_Wood2335
Brass Contributor
Jan 21, 2022

This is completely unacceptable for an installation technology. MSIX team: if you’re not willing to properly support AppInstaller, please put it it out of its misery.

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hrb-2
Brass Contributor
Jan 21, 2022
Reilly, while I agree completely with you about the support being unacceptable, the proper action would be to make it work no matter how many band-aids are required until an acceptable replacement is available. For UWP apps the writing may be on the wall anyway. This is starting to feel a lot like Silverlight. I only hope that we get a fix to carry us over till a re-write can be done in another technology. A company that can spend 67.8 BILLION on an acquisition but does not supply the necessary resources to fix an internal problem has lost interest in that product.
  • Sonofsmog's avatar
    Sonofsmog
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 21, 2022

    hrb-2 Maybe for UWP. Our UWP line of business App is actually in the Windows Store (well Windows Store for Business), but this was such a simpler solution. And Microsoft pushed the Windows Application Packaging Platform for everything so we have been using it to sideload WPF projects, but NoooOo.. They gotta break it just when things were getting easier to deploy. Unbelievable.. lol actually totally believable.

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