UWP Manifest issue / restricted capability / inputForegroundObservation

Question

I\'m trying to follow this StackOverflow article, referring to this similar article on StackOverflow, and this from the UWP Windows Dev Center.

In my manifest XML, the <

Answer 1

Answer:

1. In the <package> tag, do not include wincap or rescap in IgnorableNameSpaces.
2. You do not need a corporate account to build the app successfully and without error. I used the freely-downloadable Visual Studio Community 2015 fully updated as of 2017-03-03.
3. The rescap:Capability Name= will continue to be underlined in the package XML editor, but this does not mean you will have any build warnings or errors.
4. I put a comment in the MSDN documentation that says that rescap "must" be included in IgnorableNameSpaces - this was clearly throwing me off, and may well confuse others, also.
5. More information here.

Hope this helps someone.

Cheers,

Answer 2

For Visual Studio 2019. The order is also important. I was putting the rescap:Capability last and kept getting the build error. It works if it's first, before other capabilities

From https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/packaging/app-capability-declarations#restricted-capabilities

All restricted capability elements must come before any CustomCapability and DeviceCapability elements under the Capabilities node in the package manifest.