Application deployed via windows store

Question

I am considering deploying my application via the windows store apart from the traditional website download (via an msi).

I created the appx package with the Desktop App Converter tool.

The application does some updates checks, and when being deployed via the windows store I would like to disable such checks.

The question is how to detect if the application was deployed via normal msi or via the windows store.

Answer 1

To add to nikos' comment, GetCurrentPackageFamilyName will return an error APPMODEL_ERROR_NO_PACKAGE if it's run outside the UWP context (ie the MSI scenario you mention).

Note that this API is dependent on Windows 8 or greater, which will preclude the app from running on Windows 7. Your can work around this by dynamically loading the API. More info here.