Various errors while trying to run Windows app about create-rx-app

[gabeljz]

@a-tarasyuk , in microsoft/reactxp#1011 (comment), you said:

Also, if your error related to self-signed certificate (number 4 in you list), you don't need run react-native windows you need just update your self-signed certificate.

I had read through self-signed certificate and still can't figure out how to update the certs. I am not savvy in Windows.

Do you mind providing the steps to update the certs? Seems like in my previous attempt to overcome the problem by myself, I actually created more problems.

[a-tarasyuk]

@gabeljz I've created new ReactXP application, with create-rx-app and it works well!

System Requirements which were installed described here

There are several ways how to update self-signed certificate. You can use Visual Studio to renew it or generate in PowerShell. By default create-rx-app generates self-signed certificate, if you create an application from Windows environment. You can check method which does it, in order to understand which args to use in PowerShell.

Note: if you generate a new certificate you need to update the following properties in .csproj

<PackageCertificateKeyFile> CERTIFICATE FILE NAME .pfx </PackageCertificateKeyFile>
<PackageCertificateThumbprint> HASH HERE </PackageCertificateThumbprint>

[gabeljz]

I tried to set up everything again, but using a different Windows 10 VM image.

Something new occurred this time around - after installing additional components for Visual Studio 2017 Community, I was brought to the Setting for Developer page and I set it to "Developer mode". Though there was a warning message "Developer mode is turned on. However, remote deployment and Windows Device Portal couldn't be installed so they're not available. Error code 0x80070422". I ignored this warning for the time being.

Following the steps in Getting Started on react-native-windows, and the Windows app could be built and run successfully. This proves that all system requirements are fulfilled.

Then, I created a fresh app by create-rx-app, and the errors related to self-signed certificate in step 4 did not occur!!! I suspect setting the computer to developer mode had prevented the problem, but I am not 100% sure yet. Will do more testing when I have the time.

However, when the Windows app runs, it gets stuck at Error 1 (details in the main description of this issue). I have tried restarting the Windows OS and run the app again without react-native windows, but it still gets stuck at Error 1.

[gabeljz]

Ok, I managed to overcome Error 1 by deleting the windows/Debug folder as suggested in microsoft/react-native-windows#1954 (comment).

Please do not close this issue yet. I will try to confirm if the errors related to self-signed certificate in step 4 was caused by not being in developer mode.