UWP remove PasswordVault entries when uninstall the app

Question

We have actually an application running under UWP. We were investigate some security issues related to the application: we are storing sensible data into the Credential Locker using PasswordVault. The issue is : when we uninstall the app, the data still persist on the app and we want to remove it whenever the app is uninstalled.

We tried to use :

• PackageUninstalling to detect the event, but what happen when the app is not running ?
• We have investigate Desktop6 but looks like it is related to Games

We expect a solution to remove these sensible data during the uninstallation process

Answer 1

Hi @Pierre Cochet ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

Sorry, UWP currently cannot monitor its own uninstall event outside of the process.

Thank you.