Requires windows app runtime popup

[fatim4h]

[matifali]

Hi @fatim4h, what happens if you press Yes?

[fatim4h]

Open this link, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/windows-app-sdk/downloads

This download link is broken https://aka.ms/windowsappsdk/1.6/latest/windowsappruntimeinstall-x64.exe

Then I download latest stable version 1.7 https://aka.ms/windowsappsdk/1.7/1.7.250310001/windowsappruntimeinstall-x64.exe but program cant start, download again https://aka.ms/windowsappsdk/1.6/1.6.250228001/windowsappruntimeinstall-x64.exe program can start but no UI only process, download again https://aka.ms/windowsappsdk/1.6/1.6.250205002/windowsappruntimeinstall-x64.exe still no UI.

I donwload from this link: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/windows-app-sdk/downloads-archive#windows-app-sdk-16

Last I try uninstall all existing installation then install exact version https://aka.ms/windowsappsdk/1.6/1.6.250108002/windowsappruntimeinstall-x64.exe

INFO: Provisioning of WindowsAppSDK packages will be skipped as it requires elevation.
Installing license: MSIX_MAINPACKAGE_LICENSE
Install License result : 0x0
Installing license: MSIX_SINGLETONPACKAGE_LICENSE
Install License result : 0x0
Deploying package: MicrosoftCorporationII.WinAppRuntime.Singleton_6000.373.1641.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Package deployment result : 0x0
Deploying package: Microsoft.WinAppRuntime.DDLM.6000.373.1641.0-x6_6000.373.1641.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Package deployment result : 0x0
Deploying package: Microsoft.WinAppRuntime.DDLM.6000.373.1641.0-x8_6000.373.1641.0_x86__8wekyb3d8bbwe
Package deployment result : 0x0
All install operations successful.

The program still wont show UI.

[matifali]

@deansheather, can you look into this?

Also, @EdwardAngert, did you face any of these in your testing on Windows? We can address this by adding a well tested troubleshooting section in docs.

[EdwardAngert]

oh whoa - thanks @matifali ! I think this was exactly the error I encountered, but I think I blamed my VM, so I switched to the actual Windows box

I don't have my Windows machine set up right now + I need to finish something up, so I'm going to leave some notes here that I can come back to/might be useful to anyone else who finds the broken Windows App SDK 1.6.5 installer link.

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that link is broken, like @fatim4h says (thanks for highlighting the issue!).

MS site has a broken link to https://aka.ms/windowsappsdk/1.6/latest/windowsappruntimeinstall-x64.exe which redirects to a bing search

but if you

1. take that link and use the format they use on 1.7: https://aka.ms/windowsappsdk/1.7/1.7.250310001/windowsappruntimeinstall-x64.exe

2. find the latest 1.6 release on GitHub (1.6.6 today): https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/releases/tag/v1.6.6

3. which links to: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK/1.6.250228001

4. then we extract the 1.6.250228001 from the release and get: https://aka.ms/windowsappsdk/1.6/1.6.250228001/windowsappruntimeinstall-x64.exe

   which downloads!

😰

edit to add: looks like someone submitted an issue to their docs: MicrosoftDocs/windows-dev-docs#5359