Microsoft.Testing.Extensions.PackagedApp

v2.4.0

This package extends Microsoft Testing Platform to start Windows test hosts that cannot simply be Process.Started. In its Windows build (net*-windows) it registers a packaged MSIX app layout with the PackageManager and activates it by Application User Model ID, delivering platform arguments through argv for packagedClassicApp/win32App hosts or a reusable OnLaunched bootstrap for windowsApp/UWP hosts. When the selected application runs in AppContainer, the launcher also authorizes its exact package SID on the controller pipe with minimum client rights. A non-packaged (loose-layout) Windows test host can optionally be deployed to an isolated directory and launched from there. The launcher enables itself only for a packaged layout, so referencing it from an unpackaged app does not change how that app runs. These communication primitives do not change the current SDK/platform routing limitation: true UWP/AppContainer projects are still selected for VSTest rather than started as MTP test hosts. Microsoft Testing is a set of platform, framework and protocol intended to make it possible to run any test on any target or device.