Visual Studio 2015 Cordova Windows 10 > Blank/white screen after associated with the existing windows store app

Question

Without associating the app with the store, i can run and debug the cordova app on my devices (all works fine). But after associating the app with the store (or after built

Answer 1

before associate app in visual studio

ionic plarform add windows

cordova build -- --packageCertificateKeyFile="CordovaApp.Windows10_StoreKey.pfx" --packageThumbprint="8d66824...."

and you have associated app without visual studio

Answer 2

I ran into the same issue.
In fact, when we associate app with the store, association change "Package Name" with name generated to the store.
The result is : start page don't know where is "index.html" because package name changed.

To resolve it, cordova team added two preferences :

<preference name="WindowsStoreIdentityName" value="12225TOTO42.3355241V9C2T6" />
<preference name="WindowsStorePublisherName" value="CN=9985D2C8-IUI5-4272-TOTO-EBR6FE26877A" />

You just have to add it to your config.xml and fill fields with your app identity informations (retrieve this values from App Management --> App Identity in the Dev Center)

Association should be successful now !

The issue reference is here : https://github.com/phonegap/build/issues/506

Answer 3

i found a solution!

The error only occur, when i install cordova and plugins over CLI, but when i start a cordova project over visual studio 2015 and use the integrated plugin manager -> so it works without any error.

Kevin

Answer 4

I had the same problem but I resolve it now. When you associate the application to store, Visual Studio changes these values:

but it does not change the value of package name in the application tab:

so the index.html is not found and the app shows a blank screen. To resolve it, you must add two preferences in config.xml file as described here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/40658027/2496666

and rebuild the project from CLI with the usual command:

cordova build windows

after rebuild the project, the values shown in the following image must be the same: