Visual Studio Team Services: Build universal app for the store

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I want to build universal app for release on the store i.e. generating the *.appxupload (building the *.appx to deploy on my machine is fine; have to remove the default /p:AppxBundle=Always though and cannot build Win32: no matter what I do, it always builds ARM). But I cannot get it to work at all following Microsoft's instructions i.e. adding /p:UapAppxPackageBuildMode=CI.

The system simply stops with

Error MSB4126: The specified solution configuration "Release|x86" is invalid. Please specify a valid solution configuration using the Configuration and Platform properties (e.g. MSBuild.exe Solution.sln /p:Configuration=Debug /p:Platform="Any CPU") or leave those properties blank to use the default solution configuration.

My project has obviously an Release|x86 configuration. And it reports this while building ARM release. I tried changing x86 to Win32 but it then report

APPX0502: File 'C:\a\1\s\AppName\BundleArtifacts\Win32.txt' not found. [C:\a\1\s\AppName\AppName.vcxproj]

EDIT: Apparently, I have to manually set the Project to Win32 for it to build x86 release. Previously, it was left blank (and the automatic build configuration generator also leaves it blank).

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1 Answers

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Update the argument to:

/p:UapAppxPackageBuildMode=StoreUpload

And then queue the build, you should get the appxupload file. enter image description here

Refer to this link for details: Windows Store app projects stopped generating the .appxupload file.

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