I have a universal windows application for windows 8.1 and windows phone (WAP)
But my customer doesn't have access to the windows store, there's a way to use Installshield or something similar to generate a Setup Installer?
At the moment i have to type some code in powershell and it's really annoying and unprofessional.
There's a workaround for this situation?
The Suite/Advanced UI project type (Premier edition of recent enough versions—probably 2012 Spring) has support for side-loading .appx packages. More recent versions (2016 or so) add support for Windows 10 UWP App Packages.
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I have purchased the Windows sideloading key to deploy an LOB app without using
Windows Store. My clients are reluctant to use powershell to install the app.
Is there a way to automate the powershell installer to a much more user friendly
way? So I can give a one click installer to install the app on devices.
Using an MDM is very costly, devices can't be domain joined either, and I don't know any other way of doing it. Please help.
Try WiX Poweshell extension, https://github.com/flcdrg/PowerShellWixExtension and create standalone installer.
I see that the Interactivity namespace was moved into the Prism.Wpf package since V6 - how do I access this functionality in a Win10 UAP app?
Prism.Wpf is for WPF only and thus not compatible with Windows 10 UWP (binary wise).
For Windows 8.1 RT / Windows 10 UWP you currently can add a reference to the Behaviors SDK. Note that it targets Windows 8.1, but it works under Windows 10 as well.
An alternative to adding the reference is opening Blend, and dragging a behavior from the Assets tab onto your page. This will add a reference as well.
Even better news is that Microsoft is working on a NuGet library for Windows 10 UWP behaviors, which should be available in approx. 1 month and will be made open source. So anyone reading this in the future, should look for the package.
I've installed Google Web Designer on Windows XP, and saw this error:
The procedure entry point GetSystemDefaultLocaleName could not be located in the dynamic library KERNEL32.dll
What can I do?
I think that it won't support XP.
Here are the minimum system requirements, according to their documentation:
Operating system
Windows requirements
Windows 7
Windows 8
I think it does not support Windows XP. I installed in Windows 7. No issues. The error you have got is mainly caused by misinterpreted operating system -- that's described as a possible cause in Microsoft's support knowledge base:
The application is misinterpreting the operating system version and is trying to call a procedure in the Windows 95 or Windows 98 version of the Dynamic Link Library (DLL) that is unavailable in Windows NT version 4.0 or Windows 2000.
Windows XP is not supported. See the system requirements.
When I installed Microsoft Visual C++ and C# 2008 Express, I got "Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows Server 2008" added in.
I want to know if I can remove it and still have all the functionality of Visual C++/C#.
Strange, I remember it was shipped with Vista RTM headers (The Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit Update for Windows Vista version). Looks like Microsoft updated the SDK bundled with Express.
Anyway, the SDK is responsible for a lot of features in Visual Studio. For example, Visual Studio invokes sgen.exe to generate XML serializer assemblies, and call rc.exe to compile a resource script. Chances are you can't get away without it if you are not writing hello-world apps.
For .net 3.5 SP1, Microsoft have the new client profile which installs only a subset of .net 3.5 SP1 on to Windows XP user's machines.
I'm aware of how to make my assemblies client-profile ready. And I've read the articles on how to implement an installer for ClickOnce or MSI.
But I've been using Inno Setup for my project so far and I'd like to continue to use it (as an Express user, I can't easily make MSIs), I need to know how to use the client-profile installer in a custom environment.
There is an article on a Deployment.xml schema, but no indication of how to write one, package it or anything else. Can someone explain this process? Finding the articles I linked to alone was a painful search experience.
Microsoft has now shipped the Client Profile Configuration Designer (Beta).
This designer lets you edit the XML files with some limitations, this isn't a 'Google beta' by any means.
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Can you clarify: Are you trying to write an installer for your app, which depends on the Client-Profile, or are you trying to write a custom installer for the client-profile?
I haven't used it personally, but if it's anything like the dotnetfx 1 and 2 msi's, you basically have to just invoke it's executable yourself from your own .exe file, or from an Msi BEFORE the InstallExecuteSequence starts up - you can't "embed" those in your own app, MS go out of their way to tell you not to do that due to suckage of MSI.
Client profile works only on clean XP. If your user as .Net 1 or 2 installed, client profile wont install...
You have an offline version (integrating Full .Net3.5 Install in case Client Wont install) 200 to 300Mo don't remember
Online version will get required files.
You can call a silent install from the first steps of your install.