Windows app store: when you update an app
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I updated C'YaPass in the Windows app store. You can see it in the app store[^]. Its 100% FREE & open source. User Experience Anyways, everything went well with the update so I went to update it on my Win10 computer so I could get the user experience and see how it all worked. When I visited the app store and looked at the app, it didn't say anything about there being an update. I was confused -- it had been more than 24 hours after my windows app store dev account said it would be available. Reboot - Nothing I rebooted and visited the store again. Again, nothing. It showed that I owned the app but nothing about updates. I started the app from the app store to see if it would trigger anything. It started the older installed version (1.4.7) I didn't notice anything. Then I decided to shut down the computer and check again later. WinGet COM Server When I attempted to shut down the computer, I was notified that some process was running and asked if I'd like to kill it. I canceled the shutdown and looked in Task Manager and I saw this (snapshot)[^]. WinCOMServer => WindowsPackageManagerServer.exe... and that thing is eating up some process. Wow! I decided to wait until that service completed. Yep, after that cryptic service completed then the App Store (which I had closed previously) now had an [Install] button -- but not an [Update] button like it should. Oy! I ran the install and the latest version 1.4.8 was installed as expected. So, that is the user experience... :|
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I updated C'YaPass in the Windows app store. You can see it in the app store[^]. Its 100% FREE & open source. User Experience Anyways, everything went well with the update so I went to update it on my Win10 computer so I could get the user experience and see how it all worked. When I visited the app store and looked at the app, it didn't say anything about there being an update. I was confused -- it had been more than 24 hours after my windows app store dev account said it would be available. Reboot - Nothing I rebooted and visited the store again. Again, nothing. It showed that I owned the app but nothing about updates. I started the app from the app store to see if it would trigger anything. It started the older installed version (1.4.7) I didn't notice anything. Then I decided to shut down the computer and check again later. WinGet COM Server When I attempted to shut down the computer, I was notified that some process was running and asked if I'd like to kill it. I canceled the shutdown and looked in Task Manager and I saw this (snapshot)[^]. WinCOMServer => WindowsPackageManagerServer.exe... and that thing is eating up some process. Wow! I decided to wait until that service completed. Yep, after that cryptic service completed then the App Store (which I had closed previously) now had an [Install] button -- but not an [Update] button like it should. Oy! I ran the install and the latest version 1.4.8 was installed as expected. So, that is the user experience... :|
Coincidence... I yesterday was at a friends place teaching he and a friend of him automation. He told me about the DOS "winget" prompt. I commented it a couple of threads above this. You might like it too.
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