Desktop App to UWP using Desktop App Converter

Question

I have desktop application and want to convert it to an uwp application. I use desktop app converter with powershell. I am trying to convert my startup projects exe, but everytime i try execution stops at

Running Installer in Isolated Environment

VERBOSE: No installer valid exit codes specified. Using defaults: 0 VERBOSE: Replace any occurence of in -InstallerArguments with C:\installer\logs VERBOSE: Running installer command in isolated environment: VERBOSE: Command Line = "C:\installer\X.Framework.Main.exe" /passive

part. Is the exe i try to convert is wrong or -InstallerArgument i write? What should i change to end the conversion succesfully?

My PowerShell command:

PS C:\Users\EccE\Desktop\convert> .\DesktopAppConverter.ps1 -Installer C:\Users\EccE\Desktop\X\X-wpf-framework\bin\Debug\X.Framework.Main.exe -InstallerArguments "/passive" -Destination C:\Users\EccE\Desktop\X\X-out\ -PackageName "XApp" -Publisher "CN=X" -Version 0.0.0.1 -MakeAppx -Verbose

Edit:

When i tried to convert project solution i got the following error:

Running Installer in Isolated Environment

VERBOSE: No installer valid exit codes specified. Using defaults: 0 VERBOSE: Replace any occurence of in -InstallerArguments with C:\installer\logs VERBOSE: Running installer command in isolated environment: VERBOSE: Command Line = "C:\installer\X.Framework.sln" /passive VERBOSE: Moving any logs in C:\DesktopAppConverter\e931cac0-58a1-46dc-9efd-f5f442a0d814\shared\logs to C:\DesktopAppConverter\e931cac0-58a1-46dc-9efd-f5f442a0d814\logs VERBOSE: Cleaning up by removing isolated environment shared folder 'C:\DesktopAppConverter\e931cac0-58a1-46dc-9efd-f5f442a0d814\shared' VERBOSE: An error occurred. Refer to logs in C:\DesktopAppConverter\e931cac0-58a1-46dc-9efd-f5f442a0d814\logs Exception calling "RunIsolatedProcessWithMappedDirectoryAndExport" with "6" argument(s): " geçerli bir Win32 uygulaması değil. (HRESULT özel durum döndürdü: 0x800700C1)" At C:\Users\EccE\Desktop\convert\converter_util\Sequencer.ps1:141 char:9 + $installerExitCode = [Microsoft.Centennial.Tools.DesktopAppCo ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], MethodInvocationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : BadImageFormatException

Answer 1

VERBOSE: No installer valid exit codes specified

This is due to we need to package our executable program as a installer first, this converter can run your desktop installers through the converter in an unattended (silent) mode and obtain an AppX package that you can install by using the Add-AppxPackage PowerShell cmdlet on your development machine.

See the first paragraph in this document: Desktop App Converter Preview (Project Centennial)

See also the points of Preparing your desktop app for conversion to UWP

Your app installation requires user interaction. Your app installer must be able to run silently, and it must install all of its prerequisites that aren't on by default on a clean OS image.

You can create a MSI package and use converter to generate Appx as you want.