Debuggable Package Manager

Question

_{Thursday, July 6, 2017 3:18 AM}

I installed Visual Studio Community Edition 2017 and noticed the Debuggable Package Manager does not work. I am running Windows 7 Enterprise Edition [64 Bit]. I have also successfully installed WindowsPowerShell 3.0. The command prompt returns the following error ...

Import-Module : The specified module 'Appx' was not loaded because not valid module file was found in any module directory.

Show-Appxdebug : AppxDebug requires Windows 8 or later.

The command prompt has the following command:

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -NoExit -Command "& { Import-Module Appx; Import-Module .\AppxDebug.dll; Show-AppxDebug}"

Is there anyway to fix this without upgrading to Windows 8?

Bruce

All replies (1)

_{Thursday, July 6, 2017 7:02 AM}

Hi Bruce,

Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.

The only way to solve this issue is upgrading the system.

Please see the  System Requirements, Platform Targeting and Compatibility, if you insists on using Win7, which lacks of some system dlls or assemblies, that the AppxDebug can't run properly.

If the Appxdebug is necessary for your project development, you need to back up all your important files, then upgrade to Win 8 or later version, It will also provide you a much better and clean environment.

Thank you for your understanding.

Best Regards,

MSDN Community Support
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