Hi, I'm just starting this book, Enjoying it! Got a question though. In the first chapter it is mentioned that after running debug in VS, you can located the executable in Explorer and double click on it... but that won't work on "other machines". I am wondering, has this behavior changed in later versions of Visual Studio? When I double click on the executable, I get this:

"This application can only run in the context of an app container".

Hi Banjo,

Sorry about that. The short answer is that the newer Universal (UWP) apps are intended to be installed as apps so they can only run inside an app container. That means you need to run them either in the Visual Studio development environment, or you can install them as apps via the App Store.

That book deals mostly with Windows Forms and to a lesser extent WPF applications. Those kinds of programs create an executable that you can run by double-clicking on the local machine.

Sorry about the confusion!

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Rod

Rod Stephens, Microsoft MVP

Essential Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms

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