ApiInformation.IsPropertyPresent throws in an unpackaged app

[eerhardt]

Describe the bug

When I call ApiInformation.IsPropertyPresent("Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage", "IsAnimatedBitmap") in an unpackaged app it is throwing an exception:

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Create new “Blank App, Packaged (WinUI 3 in Desktop)” project.
2. Edit the .csproj to add:

  <PropertyGroup>
    <WindowsPackageType>None</WindowsPackageType>
  </PropertyGroup>

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK" Version="1.0.2" />
  </ItemGroup>

3. Change the MainWindow.xaml.cs to have myButton_Click method as:

private void myButton_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    myButton.Content = ApiInformation.IsPropertyPresent("Microsoft.UI.Xaml.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage", "IsAnimatedBitmap");
}

4. Build the app for Release, x64.
5. run the .exe in the bin\x64\Release\net6.0-windows10.0.19041.0\win10-x64 folder
6. Click the button

Expected behavior

The app shouldn't crash because ApiInformation.IsPropertyPresent should either return true or false and not throw an exception.

Actual behavior

System.InvalidOperationException
  HResult=0x80131509
  Message=Exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' was thrown.
  Source=WinRT.Runtime
  StackTrace:
   at WinRT.ExceptionHelpers.<ThrowExceptionForHR>g__Throw|20_0(Int32 hr) in D:\a\1\s\src\WinRT.Runtime\ExceptionHelpers.cs:line 82

 	WinRT.Runtime.dll!WinRT.ExceptionHelpers.ThrowExceptionForHR.__Throw|20_0(int hr) Line 82	C#
>	WinRT.Runtime.dll!WinRT.ExceptionHelpers.ThrowExceptionForHR(int hr) Line 85	C#
 	Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.dll!ABI.Windows.Foundation.Metadata.IApiInformationStaticsMethods.IsPropertyPresent(WinRT.IObjectReference _obj, string typeName, string propertyName) Line 493	C#
 	Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.dll!Windows.Foundation.Metadata.ApiInformation.IsPropertyPresent(string typeName, string propertyName) Line 88	C#
 	App9.dll!App9.MainWindow.myButton_Click(object sender, Microsoft.UI.Xaml.RoutedEventArgs e) Line 34	C#
 	Microsoft.WinUI.dll!WinRT._EventSource_global__Microsoft_UI_Xaml_RoutedEventHandler.EventState.GetEventInvoke.AnonymousMethod__1_0(object sender, Microsoft.UI.Xaml.RoutedEventArgs e) Line 7875	C#
 	Microsoft.WinUI.dll!ABI.Microsoft.UI.Xaml.RoutedEventHandler.Do_Abi_Invoke.AnonymousMethod__0(Microsoft.UI.Xaml.RoutedEventHandler invoke) Line 43206	C#
 	Microsoft.WinUI.dll!ABI.Microsoft.UI.Xaml.RoutedEventHandler.Do_Abi_Invoke(System.IntPtr thisPtr, System.IntPtr sender, System.IntPtr e) Line 43215	C#

Screenshots

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NuGet package version

1.0.2

Packaging type

Unpackaged

Windows version

Windows 10 version 21H1 (19043, May 2021 Update)

IDE

Visual Studio 2022-preview

Additional context

cc @mattleibow

[eerhardt]

An exception also occurs for ApiInformation.IsMethodPresent in an unpackaged app.

[jonwis]

@DefaultRyan or @DrusTheAxe can you look into this? Unpackaged apps should still be causing the bootstrapper to load, which should be putting the right metadata into the package graph for the RoGetMetadata implementations behind this API.

[riverar]

Useful tidbit: This only repros on Windows 10. Not Windows 11 (22593 at least).

And is documented as a known issue: microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#6325

[DrusTheAxe]

There's an issue in UndockedRegFreeWinRT not retrieving dynamic package graph entries in metadata lookup. This affects ApiInformation's use of WinRT metadata. I'm working on a fix.

36717508: UndockedRegFreeWinRT's Metadata lookup calls GetCurrentPackageInfo w/o PACKAGE_FILTER_DYNAMIC

[DrusTheAxe]

This only repros on Windows 10. Not Windows 11 (22593 at least)

That is interesting. I'm not sure why. Thanks for the pointer, will investigate

[DrusTheAxe]

This is fixed in main for 1.2
It's also up for 1.1-servicing