Add app package sample

Requires

• Visual Studio 2012

License

• MS-LPL

Technologies

• Windows Runtime

Topics

• Packaging

Updated

• 10/17/2013

Description

This sample shows you how to install a package on the system using the Package deployment API.

Users acquire your app as an app package. Windows uses the information in an app package to install the app on a per-user basis, and ensure that all traces of the app are gone from the device after all users who installed the app uninstall it. Each package consists of the files that constitute the app, along with a package manifest file that describes the app to Windows.

Warning  This sample requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2013; it doesn't compile with Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows.

Note  The Windows Samples Gallery contains a variety of code samples that exercise the various new programming models, platforms, features, and components available in Windows 8.1 and/or Windows Server 2012 R2. These downloadable samples are provided as compressed ZIP files that contain a Visual Studio solution (SLN) file for the sample, along with the source files, assets, resources, and metadata necessary to successfully compile and run the sample. For more information about the programming models, platforms, languages, and APIs demonstrated in this sample, please refer to the guidance, tutorials, and reference topics provided in the Windows 8.1 documentation available in the Windows Developer Center. This sample is provided as-is in order to indicate or demonstrate the functionality of the programming models and feature APIs for Windows 8.1 and/or Windows Server 2012 R2. Please provide feedback on this sample!

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Related topics

Samples

Remove app package sample

Concepts

App packages and deployment

Reference

Windows.Management.Deployment.PackageManager

Related technologies

App packaging and deployment

Operating system requirements

Client	Windows 8.1
Server	Windows Server 2012 R2

Build the sample

From the Command window

1. Open a Command window.

2. Go to the directory where you downloaded the AddPackage sample.

3. Run the following command:

   msbuild AddPackageSample.sln

From Visual Studio

1. Start Visual Studio and select File > Open > Project/Solution.

2. Go to the directory where you downloaded the AddPackage sample and double-click its Microsoft Visual Studio Solution (.sln) file.

3. Press F7 (or F6 for Visual Studio 2013) or use Build > Build Solution.

Run the sample

1. Open a Command window.

2. Go to the directory that contains AddPackageSample.exe.

3. Run the following command:

   AddPackageSample package-uri

   For example, AddPackageSample "file://C|users/testuser/desktop/testpackage.appx".