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I am trying to deploy my C# app to my Windows 8 Metro desktop. I can see the deployed files in the bin folder but when i try to open them i get the following error:

This application can only run in the context of an AppContainer.

I checked the properties context menu and i searched through both the manifest and the project settings files.

I think the solution is one of the following

  • deploy the application with its security context set to AppContainer ?
  • run the application in the AppContainer context ?
  • deploy the application directly to my metro desktop ?

But I have no clue how to approach this as I can't find the error in the docs.

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  • I would love to know how to do this from the command line and not just through VS. Commented Jun 22, 2015 at 20:29

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Metro-style apps aren't meant to be run as ordinary applications. If you want to run an application you wrote, you can do one of the following:

  1. Run it from VS (with or without debugging). This will actually install unpackaged version of your app, so you will see it in the start screen.
  2. Create a package to use locally. You can do this in VS by going to Project → Store → Create App Package → Build a package to use only locally. This will create a bunch of files, including a command-line script that will actually install the app. You probably could use this method to distribute the app, but it would work only on developer-enabled computers.
  3. Publish your app to the Store. This is the only way you should use to distribute the apps to ordinary users.
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Is the AppContainer basically the Metro environment? Also, would you be able to create an AppContainer and have that launch your app?
Also note that the Create App Package option will be disabled until you select the project in Solution Explorer.
Boy, that makes things a little harder to send to beta testers. (Yes, yes, I know, but that's a lot of rigmarole for the first beta.)

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