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How to uninstall metro style device app and the corresponding device metadata

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I followed the instructions to install PrintWWADCA sample with VS11's Device Metadata authoring tool to my Win8 Developer Preview, it works great.
Now if I want to uninstall it, what should I do? By right-click mouse can uninstall metro style device app, but then the "More Settings" button from print application brings up a blank screen, not the original default one.
Manually remove the xxxx-devicemetatdata-ms from %ProgramData%Microsoft/Windows/DeviceMetadataStore or %ProgramData%Microsoft/Windows/DeviceMetadataCache seems not working.
Many thanks!!
spider
- Edited by edward ho Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:40 AM further info
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 4:46 AM
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try uninstalling the printer and reinstalling, then possibly a restart if its still not back to normal
- Marked as answer by Eric Hanson-MSFTModerator Friday, May 25, 2012 5:50 AM
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 9:44 PM -
It may be best to do a clean install...
- Marked as answer by Eric Hanson-MSFTModerator Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:45 PM
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:45 PMModerator
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Spider,
I will look into this for you.
Best Wishes - Eric
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 6:55 PMModerator -
try uninstalling the printer and reinstalling, then possibly a restart if its still not back to normal
- Marked as answer by Eric Hanson-MSFTModerator Friday, May 25, 2012 5:50 AM
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 9:44 PM -
Could you try this on the Consumer Preview?
- Proposed as answer by Eric Hanson-MSFTModerator Thursday, March 29, 2012 1:37 AM
Saturday, March 3, 2012 2:45 AMModerator -
Eric,
Here're my steps in installing:
1.1. build the Metro Style device app and deploy it (locally)
1.2. using Device Metadata Wizard to create a corresponding devicemetadata-ms file and let Wizard to copy it to my system's local metadata store (%PROGRAMDATA%Microsoft\Windows\DeviceMetadataStore\en-us)
It works fine.
For unistalling:
2.1. uninstall the Metro Style App (right click the tile and choose uninstall)
2.2. delete the devicemetadata-ms installed in step 1.2 from %PROGRAMDATA%Microsoft\Windows\DeviceMetadataStore\en-us\ folder
After 2.1 and 2.2, the device app looks disappeared. But if i do step 1.1 again, device app then show up.
My question is : Since i have removed devicemetadata-ms from metadata store, why we can still see the device app when i reinstall app without reinstalling devicemetadata? Should i remove any other file(s) somewhere else?
This symptom can be seen in Release Preview (6.2.8400) too.
Thanks
spider
Tuesday, August 14, 2012 10:10 AM -
Hi Eric, try removing from DeviceMetadataStore and DeviceMetadataCache as well.
Thanks
- Edited by SaiMm Monday, August 20, 2012 5:22 AM
Monday, August 20, 2012 5:21 AM -
Removing devicemetadata from DeviceMetadatStore and DeviceMetadaCache don't work for me. I can still see the device app when pressing "More settings" button from IE.
Thanks
spider
Tuesday, August 21, 2012 4:23 AM -
It may be best to do a clean install...
- Marked as answer by Eric Hanson-MSFTModerator Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:45 PM
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 5:45 PMModerator