Cannot perform package validation in Win8 Consumer Preview (64bit)

Question

Hi friends, I confronted a trouble in validating my Metro App.
I chose "Store"/"Create Local Package" and launched Windows App Certification Kit.
After successfully executed the PRELOG phase,
I simply got "cannot continue testing since the specified Metro style App was not found...".
But the package was created indeed, and the paths shown in output are correct...

P.S. I used appcertui following the guide in MSDN, but just could not see my deployed apps for validation. Could this be the same issue?  

Answer 1

Strangely the validation is possible in a 32 bit Win8 CP machine...

Answer 2

Hello,

I think the package full name is incorrect. The package full name should be like this:

Package Name_version_platform_PublisherId
microsoft.sdksamples.fileaccesssample.cpp_1.0.0.0_x86__s9y1p3hwd5qda

You can follow this sample codes to get the package full name
App package information sample
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Package-sample-46e239fa

Best regards,
Jesse

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Jesse Jiang [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 3

Try these steps on the Consumer Preview system with the problem:

1. Open a powershell window
2. Do a “Get-AppxPackage > out.txt”
3. Open out.txt and look at InstallLocation field of all the apps installed.
4. For the apps whose InstallLocation is blank, do a “Remove-AppxPackage
   <packageFullName>”

Then try to run thru the App Cert Kit again.

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David Lamb

Answer 4

Do you have auto-increment version number on? If so, turn it off, and set it the same as shown in Get-AppxPackage. (1.0.0.0, most likely)

Answer 5

Originally I had it on, and then I turned this option off so that no suffix will be appended