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WAP Capabilities missing
I am building an MSIX project using the Windows Application Package under Visual Studio.
The application exe is an administrator tool that has a manifest requiring admin. Yes, I know that won'...
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The issue was that I forgot that allowelevation is part of the rescap schema extension and not uap extension. Fixing this resolved the issue.
So in case someone else has a similar issue, the technique was to create the WAP project, and then manually edit the Package.appxmanifest file to add in the needed capability. You'll find a capabilities element with at least the "runFullTrust" capability (which is also part of the rescap schema extension, so you can just copy/paste and change the name. Other capabilities that you might want to add manually might be under different extensions, so check.
[Replying to my own post. I am a bad person...]
The issue was that I forgot that allowelevation is part of the rescap schema extension and not uap extension. Fixing this resolved the issue.
So in case someone else has a similar issue, the technique was to create the WAP project, and then manually edit the Package.appxmanifest file to add in the needed capability. You'll find a capabilities element with at least the "runFullTrust" capability (which is also part of the rescap schema extension, so you can just copy/paste and change the name. Other capabilities that you might want to add manually might be under different extensions, so check.
The issue was that I forgot that allowelevation is part of the rescap schema extension and not uap extension. Fixing this resolved the issue.
So in case someone else has a similar issue, the technique was to create the WAP project, and then manually edit the Package.appxmanifest file to add in the needed capability. You'll find a capabilities element with at least the "runFullTrust" capability (which is also part of the rescap schema extension, so you can just copy/paste and change the name. Other capabilities that you might want to add manually might be under different extensions, so check.