What should be passed as the volume?

[yowl]

The example is nice, but its not clear what to pass as the volume, could that be explained here?

i.e. here:

public async void CheckForAppInstallerUpdatesAndLaunchAsync(string targetPackageFullName, PackageVolume packageVolume)

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[anarvekar-msft]

Thank you for your question @yowl . PackageVolume is this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/Windows.Management.Deployment.PackageVolume?view=winrt-20348

It's basically C: or D:, whichever drive the package was installed to.

[yowl]

Thanks, when requesting an update, does it have to be the same as where the package was installed originally, or can it be new PackageManager().GetDefaultPackageVolume() ?

Or maybe the better question is , how do you get the PackageVolume or volumeName for a package as PackageVolume has no public constructor?

[anarvekar-msft]

@yowl It has to be the same as where the package was installed originally. To find the PackageVolume you can use FindPackageVolumes. It returns a list of PackageVolumes and you can pass the one you want to the method.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/uwp/api/windows.management.deployment.packagemanager.findpackagevolumes?view=winrt-20348

You only need to do this for the first time install. If you're doing an update, you can just pass in null for packageVolume parameter and skip that step

[yowl]

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You only need to do this for the first time install. If you're doing an update, you can just pass in null for packageVolume parameter and skip that step `

Ah, thanks a lot, that is what I needed to know.