Appcenter: Example available for AppCenter.Distribute with WPF?

[TheElectricCo]

Hi!

First of all I want to thank you for this great tool. The Crashes and Analytics module have already spared me lots of frustration and tedious debugging time :-)

Now I would like to take my WPF app a bit further. With Azure pipelines, I have set up a chain where a msi is created and deployed to AppCenter. Users in the distribution list get an email that a new version is available, which is great. However: Can the WPF app auto-detect updates via the AppCenter.Distribute package? I can't really seem to find a good example/walktrough for this on the documents page or anywhere else...

if I try this:
Distribute.SetEnabledAsync(true)
the Enabled property stays false..

Can someone guide me in the good direction?
Thanks for the help!

[ilyashumihin]

Hi @TheElectricCo,
Thanks for getting in touch!

Currently WPF doesn't support in-app updates.

[TheElectricCo]

Hi @ilyashumihin

Thanks for the update!
Any idea when this will be supported?

[OzBob]

While I wait for this to be put on the road map #1621 ...

I will:
copy my msix and appinstaller files to a web site and allow users to install/sideload the app from there.

https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/blob/develop/docs/getting-started/0-overview.md
or
https://winsparkle.org/

[OzBob]

@TheElectricCo Does this example from the appcenter-sdk-dotenet project work as the requested example?

[TheElectricCo]

Hi @OzBob ,

not sure where to look. In the WPF demos I don't immediately see an implementation of the in-app updates (or I am looking over it, it is still morning). Can you point me where to look in the example?

Thanks,
Lens

[OzBob]

Hi Lens/ @TheElectricCo
my bad, the example doesn't have auto-update.
I am investigating win.sparkle and windows.squirrel as packages to make my own.
I am searching for an example using the AppCenter 'sparkle' URL or the CI build files pushed to my own webserver.

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