How Can we Check the New Version of app update is available in store [UWP] programmatically.

Sowmiya Krishnamoorthi 6

I have a UWP app in the store. I uploaded an appxupload-File. Is there a way to determine at runtime if a newer version of the app is available in the store?
We have an UWP application available in MS Store,in which we have AppxBundle package to user toinstall the application.In this we need to check programmatically is there any high version available in the store,need to inform the user to update the new version of your application.

As suggested in Microsoft documentation,https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/uw...checkupdateavailabilityasync?view=winrt-19041,we are not using .appinstaller file to install an uwp application.

Is there any way to check the higher version availability in store? inside the app with appxBundle or without .appinstaller file.

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Richard Zhang-MSFT 6,936 Reputation points

2020-08-05T13:52:17.92+00:00

Hello,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A.

If your app is submitted to the Microsoft Store, then you can check the updates through StoreContext.

This document may help you:

Download and install package updates from the Store

You can get available package updates through StoreContext.GetAppAndOptionalStorePackageUpdatesAsync

Thanks.
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AlexanderSklar 11 Reputation points

2020-08-05T19:47:10.207+00:00

@Richard Zhang-MSFT it looks like GetAppAndOptionalStorePackageUpdatesAsync has been broken for a while, there are a number of reports on it.

See https://github.com/microsoft/WinDev/issues/22

Can you please route this to the store team?

Richard Zhang-MSFT 6,936 Reputation points

2020-08-10T07:44:09.797+00:00

Hello, according to my test (an App that is already on the store), GetAppAndOptionalStorePackageUpdatesAsync can check for updates and return data, and it seems to be working properly. Are you using Package Flight for testing? After updating the stable version, can it check for updates?

Richard Zhang-MSFT 6,936 Reputation points

2020-08-19T06:16:22.917+00:00

Hello, has your problem been resolved? If not, please feel free to ask

Carlo Mendoza 151 Reputation points

2020-08-20T16:07:41.283+00:00

@Richard Zhang-MSFT replying here as well. I have apps in the Store that throw the Exception when checking for updates. This is for Stable versions of the apps. Although, shouldn't this work for flighting or stable?

Richard Zhang-MSFT 6,936 Reputation points

2020-08-21T01:07:59.793+00:00

First, you need to make sure that your project is already associated with the store. Secondly, if your current app version is inconsistent with the version currently on the store, you will get an update data. Generally speaking, the version number of package flight and store stable version are different, so for package flight, there will always be updated data.

Carlo Mendoza 151 Reputation points

2020-08-21T17:28:24.9+00:00

The apps are associated with the Store and have been for a couple years now. I think this worked prior to Windows 10 version 1903. I'm on 2004 now. Does it matter that the apps are LOB apps?

So if the version in the Store has a different version, I should get data--I think that is the general expectation and why this is surprising. The Store doesn't accept packages of the same version if the version has already been published anyway, correct?

There are occasions when I've submitted a new package version to stable and package flight and don't recall success there either.

In this case, why would the response to a "get" be an exception unless it's regarding availability of the server or server error?

Richard Zhang-MSFT 6,936 Reputation points

2020-08-25T09:15:56.99+00:00

Hello, you can follow this issue, our product team is investigating on this issue

Carlo Mendoza 151 Reputation points

2021-02-14T05:09:00.663+00:00

@Richard Zhang-MSFT this has been open for a while now. Still no resolution. Who's in this team supposedly investigating?

Tristan Vien 6 Reputation points

2021-03-16T22:38:42.927+00:00

Hi,

I have followed the document https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/packaging/self-install-package-updates in my UWP app and was able to retrieve the latest app version. However, the "PackageDownloadProgress" was always 0 regardless of whether the app download/installation is successful. May I know if this is a known issue?

Gilad Noy 1 Reputation point

2022-05-26T16:43:46.183+00:00

I guess it's probably irrelevant by now, but I had the issue with PackageDownloadProgress staying 0 as well.
The problem was that the app was side loaded in debug configuration from Visual Studio.
I solved it by side loading a packaged app in release config (i.e. installed an .msix file created using the msbuild tool).

Hong 1,051 Reputation points

2023-10-20T15:42:21.1133333+00:00

Could offer a hint on what multiple package updates for an app mean? I thought an app could have only one latest package update.
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