I'm trying to get a store app certified, but after I've run the App Certification Kit, I can't access the results.
The certification process runs to the end, but the link to see the results points to a non-existent file (AppData/Local/Microsoft/AppCertKit/ValidationResult.htm)
I've tried reinstalling the Certification Kit, but no change.
My setup is: Visual Studio 2015 Community, App certification Kit 10.0 running under Windows 10 Pro
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Frauke
I got an answer from the MSDN forums, so I thought I'd share it here for anybody who has the same problem.
The workaround is to create an app package in VS, then launch the App Certification Kit from the start menu instead from inside VS! Running the ACK independently gives you the option to save the results as an XML file.
Why this option is not available when launching from VS must remain one of the great mysteries of our time, I suspect.
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I'm developing an application windows phone 8.1.Previously, it worked fine on Windows Phone 10 and Windows Phone 8.1, but after one of the Windows 10 updates, the app is no longer installed from the Windows Store. The installation is crushed with 0x80073CF9 error. All I found about this error in the Google is advices for Win Phone users, not for developers. Logs obtained from the device indicates a crash during installation, it also did not help me.
I checked if there is in my project proscribed names, or library, rid of all warnings. Cleaned project. But nothing helps. According to the disgruntled responses of users I can see that they can not install it too. There is no errors while create package and publishing it to Store: this is the most confusing as it is not clear what went wrong and what hinders to install the application on the device.
I am developing in Visual Studio 2015.
Did someone face similar problems?
UPDATE
I tried all the tips have been found in Google including correction time and language settings, soft reset, hard reset and many others. Result still the same.
Whenever I am starting to test an Windows Phone app (even a blank app) on emulator, I am getting error "The project needs to be deployed before it can be started". The emulator will be started & run successfully, still no luck in deploying app on emulator. Getting error DEP6100 & DEP6200.
These are the stuffs I tried till now:
Checked "deploy" option in 'Configuration Manager'.
Tried deploying Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone 8.1 & Windows Phone 8 blank apps on different types of emulators.
Although I am able to run apps on my device.
I am running Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 on Windows 10 Enterprise.
The Emulator is x86 based and Phone is ARM architecture. To run the app in the emulator, change the CPU to x86 in the toolbar and compile it. Now you can deploy te App to the Emulator and test it.
I faced problem like that and I fixed it by right click on project > properties > change platform target to X86.
I just started playing with Xamarin Forms, and ran into this error after following the Xamarin Forms Quickstart Guide. The error message actually said to Run the Deploy... for the project that you are trying to run. Deploying the project seems to install some Windows dependencies that might be required to run the UMP. After deploying the project, it ran without issue as a Windows Desktop app, or if you change to Device, then install emulator, as Windows Phone app.
This error was relentlessly happening to me as well, and I found out that it was because my project was saved on a SanDisk SD card. If I simply moved the entire solution to my C drive, it built without issue, but on the D drive, it would give this error.
I am trying to deploy my windows 10 uwp app to the windows store. I got a validated developer account and everything set up. My app packages have been built and passed all tests of the testing kit. Now I am trying to perform the last step: uploading to the store.
The problem is, that the "Upload App Packages..." is greyed out! I tryed to clean the project, selected the project to no avail.
Has anyone got an idea what the problem might be or how to further debug it? As there is not error message I am not certain what is wrong in the first place...
Thank you!
According to the documentation, this option merely opens the Dev center dashboard. Save yourself the trouble and open it directly in your web browser: https://dev.windows.com
To be honest, for some reason I don't even have this option in my Visual Studio (maybe it was removed in VS 2015?). I've always generated the packages from VS then uploaded them with the web browser, without any trouble.
Goto in Release Configuration and Check .net native tool chain and optimize code then create app package again (Don't forget to associate app to store first)
I am trying to run a Silverlight 8.1 WP application through the Windows App Certification Kit and I get an error stating that the file is not a valid .xap file. I'm not sure why it is happening and not finding much about it other than one article that hints at a manifest issue. I am however able to take a dummy Silverlight 8.1 app and Certify that without error (it fails of course, but no error). The actual error is:
Failed to unpack 'xap file'. The file does not appear to be a valid xap package.
Does anyone out there know why this can happen or at least where in the manifest I might start looking?
The answer to this turned out to be an issue with the Microsoft SDK I was using. The way I figured this out is by attempting to upload the .xap file to the store even though I got that very vague error because I was still able to side load the application, so I knew to some degree the .xap file was valid. I got the following error.
The last two errors (2001) gave me more to go on, so I did some research and came across this SO post which pointed to an issue with the Advertising SDK. It turns out that the SDK I was using was adding 2 entries for some reason instead of telling me it was the wrong SDK. I used the one that came with VS 2013 Update 1, but for Silverlight, you need to use the one located here under Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight Apps
After installing this package (make sure it is 8.1 and not 8.0), I referenced that SDK and all was well again.
Hope this helps someone else with this issue
For anybody else with similar problem, executing WACK on its own (not through VS command) runs smoothly.
I used Windows8 Release Preview and Visual Studio2012 RC to develop my windows8-style application, And I want to run my application on another machine(client).They have windows8 Release Preview on their machine . So here my question are:
Are they need to install any other software like Visual Studio2012
and .NetFramework4.5 on their machine or not?
Can anyone give me some helpful information related to client's
machine requirements to run metro app successfully?
Thank you.
Are they need to install any other software like Visual Studio2012 and .NetFramework4.5 on their machine or not?
You can test it with PowerShell, it may require .net framework to install and for detailed information follow the links below.
Refer these:
How to deploy a Metro App to the Desktop?
Will Metro-style applications be able to be installed outside the market frame?
Deploying Metro style apps to non-development systems
Sharing an app package locally (Metro style apps)
Deploying Windows Metro style apps from Visual Studio
Can anyone give me some helpful information related to client's machine requirements to run metro app successfully?
Check the Edit Section of the answer and the reference video in the another answer for your second query.
Supporting a Metro style Device App
Hope this help you explore about the metro app deployment.
You can also configure your machines to do remote debugging if you want. This is useful if your development machine is a traditional laptop or desktop but you want to debug your app running on a slate that has an accelerometer, GPS, multi touch, etc.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bt727f1t.aspx has information on how to get that set up.