UWP Windows 10 app update

Question

Hi,

Is there a way to know when the UWP app get updated and user access the app for the first time after the update.
If I need to copy certain files or to do some other action after a update for the first time user access the app, what is the best way to do that?

Also after an update it'll not affect any of the existing data in these. Is that correct?

• ApplicationData.LocalSettings
• Sqlite data
• Files in the Localstate folder

Thanks
Madhu

Answer 1

Is there a way to know when the UWP app get updated and user access the app for the first time after the update.

We provide Update Task background task that invokes a background task after the app is updated on the device. This document details how to register the background task to run when the app is updated.

In general, we store the current app's version number into the LocalSettings . Every time we start the application, we check the version of the application and compare it with LocalSettings . You can get package version with the PackageVersion api.