Application Installation and Servicing
Make use of available APIs and services provided by Windows to install, manage, and service your desktop apps.
In this section
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Describes how to use Games Explorer to display games on Windows. | |
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Isolated Applications and Side-by-side Assemblies is a Microsoft Windows solution that reduces versioning conflicts in Windows-client applications. | |
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Programmatically create app packages, and install, update, query, and uninstall Windows Store apps. | |
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The Restart Manager API can eliminate or reduce the number of system restarts that are required to complete an installation or update. | |
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Microsoft Windows Installer is an installation and configuration service provided with Windows. The installer service enables customers to provide better corporate deployment and provides a standard format for component management. The installer also enables the advertisement of applications and features according to the operating system. | |
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This section documents the notifications used to detect and possibly repair an application after a setup or migration has occurred. These notifications can also be used to suspend operations during the volatile setup or migration experience. |