We recently discovered that packaging for the Windows 10 store is not generating an .appxupload file. We’re still investigating the issue and we will
have a fix shortly, but for now please follow this workaround:
Build your project for Windows 10.
Open platforms\windows\CordovaApp.sln.
Right click on the “Cordova.App.Windows10 (Universal Windows)” project, select “Store”, and then “Create App Packages…”
Follow the wizard to create a package for the Windows 10 Store.
This will generate the .appxupload file for you which you can then upload to the Windows 10 store.
We’ve recently received multiple reports of Ripple showing a blank screen when debugging an Ionic 2 application. We’ve published a new version of Ripple to get around that bug. If you’re using our tools for the first time you’ll get the new version automatically. Otherwise, here are two ways to get the update:
In Visual Studio, click Tools -> Options
Find the Tools for Apache Cordova
Click the “Clear Cordova Cache” button
Rebuild your project
…or…
Open a command prompt
cd %AppData%\npm\node_modules\vs-tac
npm update ripple-emulator
Please let us know if you still experience any issues after installing the update.
Sam El-Husseini
Software Engineer | Tools for Apache Cordova samelh@microsoft.com
Based on your feedback, we decided to revert the change to the New Project Dialog in Update 9.
If you’ve already downloaded Update 9, you can simply install the newer version by clicking this link:
Add plugin by ID
We’re happy to finally have this functionality in the IDE. We added a new option in the custom tab of the config designer
that allows you to add a plugin by plugin id.
New start page
We’ve updated our start page to make it more actionable and useful for devs getting started with our tools.
Path in the new project dialog
We changed the path of our template from “Apache Cordova” to “Mobile Apps”. This change was made to make our tooling more visible
to new developers who are unfamiliar with Cordova.
Bug Fixes
Crash in local iOS deploy
We fixed a crash when deploying to local iOS devices. The crash would happen in cases where iTunes wasn’t configured properly.
Hang opening project
We had a customer report of a hang opening a very large Cordova project. Upon investigation, we found that
we were spending a lot of time trying to resolve URLs for intellisense that would never resolve. This has been fixed in Update 9. Big
thanks to Carey for helping us get to the bottom of this issue!
Other crashes
We fixed a number of crashes that were reported to us from our crash reporting system.
Feedback and Thanks
It’s hard to believe this is our ninth release since VS 2015 RTM. Our ability to release updates this frequently is the result of a lot
of hard engineering work. We’ve invested heavily in test automation, introduced a sprint sign-off process, and scout different configurations
every night to make sure we work with different combinations of components.
However, all of this testing has limitations. There are only so many configurations we can verify before we ship. The real proof of
quality comes from you, our customers, who use our product every day to write great apps. That’s why we announce releases on this
blog so far in advance - we want to make sure our update is good before it goes live! Your feedback really does matter.
If you try our update and run into issues, we want to know about it. So please, download the update and
let me know if you have any issues. You can help us make the VS TACO tools the best they can possibly be.
The Cordova Plugin Registry, or CPR, is now offline. This means projects targetting CLI versions before 5.0 will no longer be able
to add core plugins through the config designer.
This transition was accounced a long time ago -
almost a year at this point - but was only just recently taken down.
If you are running into this issue, the workarounds are to either upgrade to a newer CLI version
or add a plugin through the custom tab.
We’re discussing tooling options for a future release to make this transition easier for customers.
