appx - wrong icon / how to set assets

• Version: 10.6.1

• Target: appx (32/64)

When building for windows store the icon.ico isn’t used in a couple places. E. g. the installed software list shows a default electron icon. Start menu as well. I found those default icons in assets. I haven’t yet figured out how to use my own icon for those assets.

[black-snow]

For the icons here’s what I had to (thanks to Matteo Pagani from Microsoft):

For the assets:

• get the VS plugin
• create a new universal app project in VS 2015
• remove the existing assets
• drop your own icon into assets (400x400 or bigger)
• rightclick your icon, select generate assets

If you have your assets:

• unpack the electron-builder-generated appx
• copy your own assets into the unpacked assets folder
• edit the manifest:
• • set Applications.Application.VisualElements.BackgroundColor to transparent
• • set Applications.Application.VisualElements.Square150x150Logo to assets\Square150x150Logo.png
• • Square44x44 and Wide310x150 analogue
• • set Properties.Logo to assets\NewStoreLogo.png
• now open the VS2015 native cmd (x86 for 32bit / x64 for 64bit)
• navigate to the unpacked files
• run makepri createconfig /cf priconfig.xml /dq en-US /pv 10.0.0 (for win10)
• run makepri new /pr . /cf priconfig.xml
• cd ..
• run `makeappx pack -d “.\your_unpacked_files” -p “name_of_the_appx.appx” -l
• and optionally sign signtool.exe sign -f path\to\your\cert.pfx -fd SHA256 -v .\name_of_the_appx.appx

Key was the -l (or /l) option for makeappx.exe plus the generated unplated asset versions.

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That’s quite a bunch of steps. I fear I have no time this year left to work on this 😐 Guess I’ll start with adding the props to the manifest.

[baldash]

Okay fixed I’m just a bad person who doesn’t read the doc properly. The issue was that for a resource named “SampleAppx.44x44.png”, I created a SampleAppx.targetsize-44_altform-unplated AND a SampleAppx.targetsize-44.png.

So, two things here

1. The name is wrong -> for SampleAppx.44x44.png you should create a file named SampleAppx.44x44.targetsize-44_altform-unplated.png

2. You only need the targetsize-44_altform-unplated.png file and not the targetsize-44.png file

Ref link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/desktop/desktop-to-uwp-manual-conversion