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App-Manifest using customInstall
Hi all,
I hope that topic fits in this board. I want to deploy a Windows-Store-App with a customInstall-Action as I need Dokany installed on the local system to create a Virtual File System that I want to manage with a UWP-app. The app itself works, but I do not get the Package-Project to pre-install the Dokany-Prerequisit. On install, I get an "invalid manifest" error, which is quite unspecific. I followed the instructions on how to use the customInstall-extension.
This github-issue describes the same problem - I've got to your community by a hint from there:
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/winrt-related/issues/194#event-3493578241
This is the open-source-project where I need to deploy dokany before my own app:
https://github.com/TopperDEL/DokanNet.Tardigrade
You can find the appx-manifest in question here:
Can someone tell me, if:
- customInstall is available for everybody? The doc says only for partners and for certain games, but the github-issue does not mention that restriction.
- if my manifest is correct or where I may have an error.
Thank you very much!
Kind regards,
TopperDEL
I don't think you will get this working. We tried to leverage the customInstall support in Advanced Installer too and the reply we got was a standard "no". As mentioned in the docs:
This element is currently intended to be used only by certain types of desktop PC games that are published by Microsoft and our partners.
Bogdan Mitrache Thank you! Well at least this leads me to "search for another way" instead of hoping ans trying to get this to work, then.
One option you can try is with the help of the Package Support Framework and it's support to run PowerShell scripts.
- I am not sure about the store. @John Vintzel Do you know if the store allows packages with PS scripts or are these restricted only for enterprise sideloading?
