What's new in Desktop App Converter 2.1.1.0
Oct 30, 2017
- Support for new Desktop Bridge features
- Improved conversion 'noise' filtering from app package
- Improved detection of app installation location
- Improved handling of existing base images
New in Desktop App Converter 2.0.2.0 (Jun 20, 2017)
- New Desktop Bridge Creator’s Update feature support:
- If your desktop app makes use of the new Desktop Bridge features now supported in the Windows 10 Creator’s update, the DAC will automatically register these features in your converted app package. Some of the new features include: Preview Handlers, Thumbnail Handlers, Property Handlers, Grouping files by their kind, Public out-of-proc COM server support, Firewall Rules and Use URL flags. If your desktop app makes use of the new features the DAC still produces a converted app package compatible with older versions of Windows. The added functionality will only show up when your converted app is running on the Creator’s Update (Build 15063) and later builds.
- Public out-of-proc server registration (Packaged COM):
- In the Windows 10 Creator’s Update Desktop Bridge apps can now expose their COM extension points to external applications. When running the Desktop App Converter you can use the new -PublishCOMRegistrations flag to publish the public COM servers in your converted app package.
- Cleanup bug fix
- No-Installer conversion:
- If your app is installed using xcopy or you’re familiar with the changes your app’s installer makes to the system, you can run conversion without an installer by setting the -Installer parameter to the root directory of your app files. The -AppExecutable parameter is required in this case.
New in Desktop App Converter 1.0.9 (Mar 16, 2017)
- No-Installer conversion: If your app is installed using xcopy or you’re familiar with the changes your app’s installer makes to the system, you can run conversion without an installer by setting the -Installer parameter to the root directory of your app files.
- App package validation: Use the new -Verify flag to validate your converted app package against Desktop Bridge and Store requirements
New in Desktop App Converter 1.0.4 (Dec 21, 2016)
- Improved base image validation to check for invalid .wim files.
- Bug fix for special characters in the -Publisher parameter.
- Updated assets.
New in Desktop App Converter 1.0.1 (Nov 16, 2016)
- Improved manifest schema validation.
- Improved error messaging.
- Added validation of supported Windows versions.
- Bug fixes for registry filter tests.
New in Desktop App Converter 1.0.0.0 (Sep 16, 2016)
- With the store app you can now use the new entry point ‘DesktopAppConverter.exe’ to run the converter from anywhere in an admin cmd or PowerShell window
- Support for auto-signing the converted apps produced by the Desktop App Converter.
- Added support for auto-detecting app dependencies on VC++ libraries and then converting them into AppX manifest dependencies.
- Updated the manifest schema to align with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update release (10.0.14393.0).
- Added warnings if any of the COM registrations in the virtual registry hive are not supported within the packaged AppX.
- Integrated the latest dotnet-computervirtualization NuGet package.
- Added newly introduced dependencies on common.dll.
New in Desktop App Converter Preview 0.1.2.5 (Sep 16, 2016)
- Integrated the latest dotnet-computervirtualization NuGet package.
- Added newly introduced dependencies on common.dll.
- Several bug fixes.
New in Desktop App Converter Preview 0.1.2.4 (Aug 17, 2016)
- Added support for auto-signing the converted apps produced by DAC for testing purposes. Check out the –Sign flag to give it a try.
- Added warnings if any of the COM registrations in the virtual registry hive are not supported within the packaged AppX.
- Added support for auto-detecting app dependancies on VC++ libraries and then converting them in to AppX manifest dependencies. Note that in order to sideload and test apps using VC++ runtime, you'll need to download the VCLib framework packages as outlined in the blog post Using Visual C++ Runtime in a Centennial project. Locate the packages under the folder Program Files (x86)Microsoft SDKsWindows Kits10ExtensionSDKsMicrosoft.VCLibs.Desktop on your machine, navigate to the version you depend on (e.g., 11.0, 12.0, 14.0), and double click on the appropriate architecture package (x64, x86) to install it.
- Updated the manifest schema to align with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (10.0.14393.0).
- Several bug fixes and improved output layout.
New in Desktop App Converter Preview 0.1.2.2 (Jul 22, 2016)
- Added support for auto detecting shell extensions from your desktop application and declaring them in the AppXManifest for your UWP package
- Improved AppExecutable detection for a large set of apps