microsoft / microsoft/WindowsAppSDK

Support building / deploying from a Network Drive

Open
#4,295 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

feature proposal
Dominant language
C++
Stars
4.7k
Forks
471
Avg merge
3d 13h
Merged PRs (30d)
28

Description

### Describe the bug

When building an app with code located on a Network drive the app will fail to build/deploy

### Steps to reproduce the bug

1) Create a new project using WindowsAppSdk on a network drive (i.e. on a Mac, or a NAS)
2) Open the project in Visual Studio
3) Attempt to build/run

### Expected behavior

The app should build / run the same as it would if the code were located on the physical hard drive or primary VHD.

### Screenshots

**Packaged**
Screenshot 2024-03-27 at 7 02 49 PM

**Unpackaged**
Screenshot 2024-03-27 at 7 03 59 PM

### NuGet package version

Windows App SDK 1.5.1: 1.5.240311000

### Packaging type

Packaged (MSIX)

### Windows version

Windows 11 version 22H2 (22621, 2022 Update)

### IDE

Visual Studio 2022-preview, Visual Studio 2022

### Additional context

Note that the errors shown occur when creating a project using the WinUI template. Building an Unpackaged app from the Uno template actually does work.

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

No source files, tests, or entry points are named. Reproduce the packaged and unpackaged WinUI-template builds from a Windows network drive using Windows App SDK 1.5.1 and Visual Studio, then compare them with a local-drive build. Done means the app builds and runs from the network drive as it does from a physical drive or primary VHD.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Domain
build-system, desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.