App for the Windows.Launch contract failed with error: The app didn't start

If you're developing a Windows Store app and you get the error:

...App for the Windows.Launch contract failed with error: The app didn't start

in the following Event Log:

Applications and Services Logs\Microsoft\Windows\Apps\Microsoft-Windows-TWinUI/Operational

The error may be caused because you attempted to install your app via a dism installation and then attempted to deploy it via F5 deployment in Visual Studio.

To verify this is the case you can run:

dism /online /Get-ProvisionedAppxPackages

If you see your app listed you can then remove it with:

dism /online /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:[packagename]

You don't even need to log out and log back in.  Hope that helps someone somewhere.


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