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The algorithm for generating an Application ID from filename is needed
MicrosoftHi Tim,
As you have observed, the operations today are:
1. Find the exe name, strip the extension
2. Convert to uppercase
3. remove all non alphanumeric characters
4. translate the numerals to corresponding English words
I cannot guarantee that this will stay the same over time though. Though we can probably add a note to document any changes here in the patch notes if needed.
For your purposes, would it be simpler if we provided you a way to tell the tool what ID you want assigned in the manifest? I suspect over time that may be easier to script against than trying to match the algorithmic generation?
Thanks!
James
Thanks.
My tool runs during monitoring mode. So the MPT can't programmatically tell me, unless you game me a COM interface to ask and I don't think we want to go there.. And my tool closes before monitoring completes, so me telling the MPT tool is probably not workable either (well, unless you act on my "plugin" idea). If it ends up involving manual entry anywhere, that would be problematic as there may be multiple entry points in the package.
So I'm OK with duplicating your algorithm as long as it is documented. Good start so far, but I know we need the following (unless you are ignoring these possible issues and generating bad packages anyway):
Given the manifest restrictions, what do you do about those restrictions?
* in case of length exceeding 64 characters, do you truncate at 64? (or maybe take last 64?)
* in cast of a disallowed token, what do you do? (like maybe an entry point called "CON.exe"?"
To clarify the community notes are not an official doc statement. We will look into make this a public doc, but have to evaluate the need to possibly change it and impacts on breaking changes. So the notes here are not guaranteed, only if it is officially in the support documentation.
John.
- James Pike
Hi Tim,
As those edge cases have not been common, the items to address them are still pending.
Thanks!
James
