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ChreesM
Brass Contributor
Oct 30, 2019

Winforms .exe in MSIX Package Does Not Startup After Auto Update

We are deploying a classic Winforms .exe via MISX. Approximately 20% of the time, the application does not start automatically after an auto update completes. After an update and failed start, we can...
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Tanaka_Jimha
Former Employee
Nov 01, 2019

ChreesM 

 

A few questions:

 

  1. To make sure I understand what's going on, are you launching the app, the update UI pops up, installs the update successfully and at the end of the update the app doesn't launch?
  2. Can you please share:

C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.DesktopAppInstaller_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState\AILog.txt from when this issue occurs.

 

And just to make sure, can you please check Task Manager to see if your app's process is present when the issue occurs.

 

Thanks

Tanaka

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