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Nothing happened in opening built .exe file

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Describe the bug

I want to deploy my app but when build finished successfully it didn’t open and nothing appear like error message or something like that. below is build output:

Build started...
1>------ Build started: Project: xamltest, Configuration: Release x64 ------
Restored C:\Users\<user name>\Desktop\test\xamltest\xamltest.csproj (in 341 ms).
1>  xamltest -> C:\Users\<user name>\Desktop\test\xamltest\bin\x64\Release\xamltest.exe
1>  Processing application code
1>  Computing application closure and generating interop code
1>    Loading 81 modules...
1>    Generating code...
1>    Interop code generated.
1>  Compiling interop code
1>  Generating System.Reflection.DispatchProxy proxy code.
1>  Cleaning up unreferenced code
1>  Generating native code
1>  Generating fixups for native code
========== Build: 1 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Steps to reproduce the bug

Opening program in bin\x64\Release<name>.exe

Expected behavior

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Screenshots

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NuGet package version

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Windows app type

UWP
Win32

Device form factor

Desktop

Windows version

Windows 10 (21H2): Build 19044

Additional context

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Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Comments:5 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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asklarcommented, May 27, 2022

is this really win32 or is it a uwp app? for a uwp app (or any packaged app), you can’t just run the exe, that won’t work, you need to start the app via e.g. the start menu, or programmatically through the activation manager API.

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asklarcommented, May 27, 2022

Either launch the app from the Start menu, or you can write a launcher exe or script.

If you have NodeJS installed, you can use npx launch-package [package name], e.g. npx launch-package microsoft.windowscalculator.
From the command line, you can start shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App. Note the !App prefix.
You can use a tool included in the SDK/App Certification kit: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\App Certification Kit\microsoft.windows.softwarelogo.appxlauncher.exe" Microsoft.WindowsCalculator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App. Note the parameter you pass is the package name followed by the !app name like !App.
You can write your own launcher, see Launcher application.

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