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Ashish
Ashish

Reputation: 114

Unable to take control over MSIX updates for .net 6 WinForms application

I am trying to build MSIX setup for my WinForms application built on .net6. I want to give auto-update feature when the user clicks the "Update" button. I think originally developer didn't have control over updating MSIX and there was only way it was updated automatically when the application is restarted.

But there is a recent article on taking full control over MSIX updates I tried to follow it but I am facing the exception 'System.InvalidOperationException' while running the below line of code.

Package package = Package.Current;

I am using visual studio 2022 & WinForms application running on .net 6. I have kept other configurations as described in the above article but it is not working as expected. (I have tried in .net core 3.1 and it is working with it)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 166

Answers (1)

marv51
marv51

Reputation: 376

Package.Current only works in a packaged context, so you need to make sure to actually debug/launch the packaging project. An InvalidOperationException indicates that you are running your project unpackaged.

Make sure to select "Set as Startup Project" on the packaging project, likely named "MyApp (Packaging)" in the Solution Explorer. Then you can launch/debug your project as you normally do.

Upvotes: 1

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