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I currently have a Xamarin Forms UWP App in the Microsoft Store.
In the next months I want to update it to MAUI.
For testing purposes and ensuring that all stored data are still available within the app, I want to simulate the Update of the Xamarin Forms app to MAUI with side loading for Windows.
After installing the MAUI-msix-Update, an error appears:
Is this a general problem or do I have a specific issue in my manifest?
Sample app:
https://github.com/reinhardlackner/SampleUpdateMauiApp
b) Install MAUI App as Update
SampleNewUpdatedApp - Right click => Publish... Sideloading
Use same certificate
Create MSIX x86 publishing profile and version is 1.0.1 (update of Xamarin 1.0.0)
Start created msix-Package and click on Update:
Error message is shown (and Update of the previously installed Xamarin App is not possible):
App installation failed with error message: Deployment Add operation with target volume C: on Package E965F79B-76C7-47E0-8308-4A503105EDE0_1.0.1.0_x86__ab06nvn9z6x6m from: (SampleNewUpdatedApp_1.0.1.0_x86.msix) failed with error 0x80073CF3. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235160 for help diagnosing app deployment issues. (0x80073cf3)
Does anybody have an idea why the update installation is not possible?
I assume it could be related with the Manifest-File...
Manfiest UWP: https://github.com/reinhardlackner/SampleUpdateMauiApp/blob/master/SampleUpdateApp.UWP/Package.appxmanifest
Manifest MAUI: https://github.com/reinhardlackner/SampleUpdateMauiApp/blob/master/SampleNewUpdatedApp/Platforms/Windows/Package.appxmanifest
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Added Windows App SDK tag. This behaviour is about the migration from UWP to WinUI 3 not from Xamarin to Maui (except that on Windows, Xamarin is UWP and Maui is WinUI)
Does that mean that it is not possible to update an app package from UWP to WinUI 3 in general?
If that is the case the deployed UWP app must be removed from Microsoft Store and added as a new app (with a new package id)... and the current users can not update (they need a completely new WinUI 3 app)...
You'll get much better responses if you use relevant tags and leave off irrelevant ones. I suspect this aged off the new posts pages before the right tags were added.
If you give the app the same ID then it'll be treated as the same app regardless of the technology used to write it. Note that you may not be able to match the ID used in the store with a side-loaded app as the store version one will be signed by the store. Once you publish the new version through the store it will match.
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I'm running into the same issue with an upgrade from Xamarin to Maui. I have the same package id's and receive the same error on update.
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It is not possible to do the update from Xamarin to MAUI in Windows with MSIX installer file. You need to convert your MSIX installer file to a msixbundle file. After that, I was able to update the app with the msixbundle file. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/packaging-tool/bundle-msix-packages