

Deleting 'Hello_1.0.5.0_Test' from the Program Files directory

Deleting 'Hello_1.0.5.0_Test' from the Program Files directory Uninstalling the UWP app by searching for it, right clicking it and clicking uninstall.

Turn sideloading off by going to Settings > Update & Security > For developers

Delete my app certificate by searching for 'Manage computer certificates' and then going to Trusted People > Certificates and deleting the 'SPDIF' certificate

Okay, so all this talk of sideloading and how easy or hard it is got me curious. So over the past hour or so I wrote a very simple UWA using the UWP APIs (it's literally just an app with a button that you can click) and then wrote a Win32 setup file to programmatically install the UWA. Turns out it's actually pretty straight forward to do.You double click the setup file and go through the UAC prompt like normal. Then this:Is the only extra step you go through. Think of it like an additional UAC that's asking you about installing a certificate. You say yes, then a few seconds later the app is installed. Here it is in all its glory (just search for 'Hello' once it's installed):And that's it, you now have a UWA app installed and none of us had to go through Microsoft's store. You also don't have to manually enable sideloading since I do that for you programmatically.This is a very quickly put together setup file, and since I was a bit lazy I didn't bother to uninstall anything for you. You'll have to do that yourself, including:If you have Windows 10 (64 bit only) and want to see what installing a UWP app from outside Microsoft's store is like, then the link is here:If not, then maybe you can see that it's not actually as locked down or as hard to do as people think.