App Center for WPF and WinForms

[@dotnetdevni]

20 years to late still love winforms and always will can’t wait to see new controls come out to the standard list app centre is fantastic.

[@ErichHafenmaier]

This is absolutely awesome and will be a game changer for some of the projects my current dev team is working on. The insight with analytics alone is huge. We have a couple of native iOS and Android apps setup in Azure DevOps pipelines that push over to App Center for distribution and it's been a great experience for getting a copy of the app into testers hands. Even though it's currently a manual process to distribute WinForms/WPF it was good to hear the Azure DevOps -> App Center flow is in the works. Kudos and thank you..! One question: Any plans to incorporate in-app updates..? I've worked with both ClickOnce and more recently Squirrel but have somewhat of a love/hate relationship with both of those.

[@misterfloris]

We've had great success using the new MSIX format, which allows you to host a package on a website and install it using the App Installer. You can configure if updates are mandatory or not and it offers a great user experience. Some more info via the following link (please note that it's not required to run in your application as .NET core): montemagno.com/distributing-a-net-core-3-wpf-and-winforms-app-with-msix/

[@olivierhelin7674]

Maybe have a look on MSIX => docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/overview

[@rodrigocaballerohurtado5367]

awesome guys I can't wait to use a WPF core app with AppCenter soon! thanks for the video

[@benja303]

Rodrigo Caballero Hurtado What is app center

[@dotnetdevni]

Be interesting to no how u force the install into specific directory’s etc looking forward to testing this.

[@vaporizer08]

Very useful video. Thanks guys.

[@severt171]

Hi, I would like to ask if it is possible to add also some auto-update check?

[@AkshayChikhalkar15]

Classic feature guys, I loved it

[@LindenMikus]

is the distribution only through email? would be nice if they opened the app and it gave a message about new version or so..

[@TABULATouch]

Is this going to work also for console C# apps and Unity native desktop (non UWP) ? For console apps it seems the error reporting setup and logic is not intrinsically coupled to WPF UI. Am I wrong?

[@VaibhavGawali]

Is there support for mix environment of WinForm & WPF app? And does this require paid subscription?

[@winnieli3030]

App Center should work for a mixed WinForms / WPF app. Give it a try and let our support team know if you run into any issues. App Center distribution, diagnostics, and analytics is completely free. You can find more about our pricing model here: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/general/pricing

[@S3Kglitches]

Does this work if I don't want users to run the installer everytime but instead do my own auto-update through my app files stored in database which will download only the lastest changed files in the last version? E.g. I update only backend dll so on the next start, the application will check for updates in the db and download only the new backend dll. Does this also somehow support having user's feedback in the log? E.g. having a dialog where the users writes what happened and that will be included in the online web application?

[@brianjohnson3383]

I watch all of videos, great stuff. I would like to see some mini tutorials for beginners. There are plenty of how too's on the web but you can't beat the professionals.

[@alxridepov]

Robert, the poor guy wanted to give you a handshake at the end... :D Nice as always though

[@jeffreyandrews3057]

Can this be used with production apps?

[@winnieli3030]

Absolutely

[@sourcephy6208]

I hope someday we can have a crossplatform desktop app.

[@ME-dg5np]

Very good @!

[@mahdihosseini5325]

tnx finally

[@abdalghanialbiek8999]

Can I deploy UWP app on app center?

[@winnieli3030]

Yep! You can upload a UWP app package in any of the formats listed here: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/distribution/uploading#uwp

[@loukask.9111]

how did she open the exe on mac?

[@tarasbuha7726]

Hans Müller seems like windows vm on her mac

[@nevzataydin1]

virtual machine

[@tornet3964]

maybe it is available on VS 2019 only ... like .Net Core Winform

[@jmoralesv03]

Actually no, the dependencies are just Nuget packages, you can use any Visual Studio version you have with a WinForms or WPF application targeting .NET Framework 4.5+. Even Visual Studio 2012 can be used.