App Center 1.0.3

Every winget command App Center runs passes --silent, which means Windows Installer never gets to ask you to close anything — it closes things itself. This release is mostly about what that costs.

• Updating the .NET runtime no longer closes App Center without warning. The runtime App Center runs on is one of the packages it lists as upgradable, and updating it replaces files the app has open — so Windows closes the app mid-batch, with no error and nothing said. Those packages are now marked on the row, called out in the confirmation, and updated last, so the rest of your list finishes first.
• The Windows shell comes back if an installer closes it. A shell extension can't have its DLLs replaced while Explorer holds them, so the installer closes Explorer — and not all of them start it again, leaving no taskbar and no desktop. App Center now notices, starts it again, and names the package that did it.
• "Restart to finish" is no longer counted as a failure. A package that installs but wants Windows restarted is reported as installed and waiting, not as an error.
• Uninstalling one of several installed versions works. Where two versions of one package are installed, each row now acts on its own version instead of winget refusing both.

Downloads

• AppCenter-1.0.3-Setup.exe — per-user installer, no admin rights needed; installs the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime if it is missing
• AppCenter-1.0.3-portable.zip — unzip and run (needs the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime)

App Center 1.0.2

First public release of App Center — Ubuntu's App Center rebuilt for Windows on top of winget.

• A curated catalogue across Explore, Featured, Productivity, Development and Games
• Search all of winget; install, upgrade and uninstall in one click
• A Manage page for everything winget already tracks
• Four colour themes: light, dark, terminal and Ubuntu
• WPF on .NET 10 with no external packages

Downloads

• AppCenter-1.0.2-Setup.exe — per-user installer, no admin rights needed; installs the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime if it is missing
• AppCenter-1.0.2-portable.zip — unzip and run (needs the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime)

Versions 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 were internal test builds and were never published.