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Installers for MSIX #552

Open lmstearn opened 1 year ago

lmstearn commented 1 year ago

Hey team, Please forgive the following blurb, Asking here after attempting to raise an issue with MS, a few weeks ago, but got bounced back to dev support for some reasons.

Going through the Partner program, and currently stalled at the following hurdle in Apps & Games: Packages: packages The program is compiled in AutoHotkey, and, as you might know, really more a language for scripts than installable programs. Just for a test, compiled this executable in this one line program with the single FileInstall command:

FileInstall PrgLnch.exe, C:\ProgramData\PrgLnch\PrgLnch.exe

and packaged it in this file. Attempting to install it gets a cert warning, unsurprisingly- is there any hope of applying any kind of quick fix to that file?

The Partner Centre Package Standard install scenarios do not apply to all installers available. For example, Inno Setup, a candidate of some standing, does not have return codes that match the "return code values for the scenarios mentioned below." Also ref this issue at Google groups. Is there any workaround to it, alternatively, does MS have a list of installers which are considered, if you will, more MS Store compatible? Thanks.

anarvekar-msft commented 1 year ago

We have a set of standard install scenarios that happen during any app installation. I found some of the codes by Inno Setup do match with these: Inno Setup Help (jrsoftware.org). Here are on the details on Store install scenarios: Upload app packages - Windows apps | Microsoft Learn

lmstearn commented 1 year ago

... Here are on the details on Store install scenarios: Upload app packages - Windows apps | Microsoft Learn

Thanks, yes that's for MSI/EXE, not MSIX. Do you think in that case, forget the MSIX here, and go with the MSI/EXE instead? Apologies, cannot recall why I chose MSIX if MS Partners/Store fully supports MSI/EXE.