Status:
Working on it
Start update-process by clicking on application taskbar button or desktop shortcut
Currently MSIX deployed desktop application (eg. Winforms or WPF) are automatically updated only when app is launched by Start menu item. When user launch app by clicking on app taskbar button or on ...
The documentation reads :
Setting the ShowPrompt="true" attribute currently shows a prompt for UWP applications but not for desktop applications that have been packaged in a Windows app package (that is, desktop applications that use the Desktop Bridge). For desktop applications, this functionality provides a silent update; the same default functionality provided by the OnLaunch element.
We don't have this attribute in our package file, but the app is still updated (the new app features are available when the app is launched and an update available). As made clear by the documentation, the update is silent for Desktop Bridge apps. But the update works 🙂