Running Background Application on Windows IoT Core

Question

I have created a BackgroundTask to run a WebService, however if i run my solution with debugger attached, everything works fine, slowly, but fine. But when i hit start in the appmanager (webinterface) it always says "failed to start package [MYPACKAGEID]". So what am i missing?

Here is the complete project: https://github.com/naice/HomeAutomation.git

public sealed class StartupTask : IBackgroundTask
{
    internal static BackgroundTaskDeferral Deferral = null;

    public async void Run(IBackgroundTaskInstance taskInstance)
    {
        // 
        // TODO: Insert code to perform background work
        //
        // If you start any asynchronous methods here, prevent the task
        // from closing prematurely by using BackgroundTaskDeferral as
        // described in http://aka.ms/backgroundtaskdeferral
        //

        Deferral = taskInstance.GetDeferral();

        await ThreadPool.RunAsync(async workItem => {

            RestWebServer restWebServer = new RestWebServer(80);
            try
            {
                // initialize webserver
                restWebServer.RegisterController<Controller.Home.Home>();
                restWebServer.RegisterController<Controller.PhilipsHUE.Main>();
                await restWebServer.StartServerAsync();
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                Log.e(ex);
                restWebServer.StopServer();
                Deferral.Complete();
            }

        }, WorkItemPriority.High);
    }
}

Answer 1

The point is that there is no problem with the code or even the manifest, it seems that it's just not meant to run while the device is in "headed" mode, you need to set it as a satrtup headless app and then restart the device.