Handling application updates with App Installer and MSIX in Windows 10 19H1

Hi Matteo Pagani,

I finally managed to install our app package containing a windows service.

Modifying the "UpdateSettings" part of the app installer file, I managed to make it work with this configuration:

<UpdateSettings>
     <OnLaunch HoursBetweenUpdateChecks="0" ShowPrompt="false" UpdateBlocksActivation="false"/>
</UpdateSettings>

However I don't know why I can't use these XML attributes and elements "HoursBetweenUpdateChecks" and "ForceUpdateFromAnyVersion".

We would like to always update this app package silently without any user input.

I noticed that I'm getting error 0x80D05011, if I do this:

  <UpdateSettings>
     <OnLaunch HoursBetweenUpdateChecks="0"/>
  </UpdateSettings>

And I get error 0xC00CEE01:

error 0xC00CEE01: The XML in the .appinstaller file is not valid ... Reason: Unexpected end of input. (0xc00cee01)

if I do this:

  <UpdateSettings>
     <OnLaunch HoursBetweenUpdateChecks="0" ShowPrompt="false" UpdateBlocksActivation="false"/>
     <ForceUpdateFromAnyVersion>true</ForceUpdateFromAnyVersion>
  </UpdateSettings>

or this:

  <UpdateSettings>
     <OnLaunch HoursBetweenUpdateChecks="0" ShowPrompt="false" UpdateBlocksActivation="false"/>
     <AutomaticBackgroundTask />
  </UpdateSettings>

I don't know why I can't use these "ForceUpdateFromAnyVersion" ?

Thanks.