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Emanuele
Emanuele

Reputation: 664

Distributing private win app in UWP

SCENARIO

I'm new in UWP tech and i would like to create and distribute my first UWP app.

It's a company app so it won't be sold and it won't be public on the store. Then i will edit the app and i will deploy it again.

I can't find docs about it.

QUESTIONS

Is there a particular process to do it (or it consists only of a copy of files - i read about powershell)? I already read Is the Windows App Store required for a UWP application? so you can avoid LOB solution. Moreover that post starts from a known solution.

Is it easy for the final user the process of updating it? Easy=opinion so: can you describe it?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 1812

Answers (2)

Handsome Greg
Handsome Greg

Reputation: 325

You can submit the app to the Store and make it available only to people with a link. The app would not be visible in the Store.

Answering your other question: as far as I know, you pay only once for a lifetime developer licence, you do not pay for submitting apps.

Upvotes: 2

Liero
Liero

Reputation: 27338

  1. For enerprises there is Microsoft Store for Business which makes an app available only to associated accounts: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/publish/distribute-lob-apps-to-enterprises

  2. You can publish an app to regular Store but hide it and make available only using promotion code.

  3. There is always posibility to sideload your app, which means running powershell that installs your app. In visual studio you can distribute your app trough Hockey App, which is portal where you upload your app and invited users will be notified about new version. However, they will need to download it, unpack and run the powershell.

Upvotes: 4

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