![]() So as noted, to use the preview you have to have the right version of Windows 10. Check that out first and then return here for more. Simon Binder wrote a good intro example of working with the preview. While I’d prefer to work with something like the forthcoming WIX extensions to build the package, we have to start here (hint: Rob, get me a beta). So I played with it this weekend on one of my own apps. Official “Desktop App Converter Preview” announcement and download page.Video: Converter Introduced at Build 2016.My Blog on Centennial from 2015 Announcement from last year.If you are getting up to speed, here are some links to what we know already. In the Q&A of that video, John also mentioned that apps using UIACCESS=true in the manifest (I’m looking at you SnagIt) are not supported, at least not currently. But so are out of process COM objects that need system access. ![]() ![]() Like what? Well we really don’t know, but in the video below Microsoft’s John Sheehan mentions that nothing can run under the system context so Windows Services are out. Apps that are captured this way still won’t work in the Centennial runtime environment if they do certain things. Instead, it just uses the app’s installer and captures the changes made by the installer - leveraging some of the App-V technology the company has to perform the capture (In fact, if you look closely at the container you’ll find a “enable-Appv” commandlet that will excite the AppV folks). Project Centennial technology is intended to be used by developers and would include making source level code changes, but this preview app converter allows us to play with converting existing apps without needed the source code. It allows existing code, which often does things not allowed in a UWA to be delivered in a UWA. Net applications and creating an AppX package that contains a Windows Universal App (UWA) front end launching point (shortcut or tile) and running the traditional windows executable in an isolated environment that is more like App-V than UWA containerization. Project Centennial is about taking standard Win32 and. This week Microsoft made available a preview of the first publicly available code involving Project Centennial, so I played with it a bit and if you are thinking of doing the same this post might help.
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