Why would this piece of WMI code fail to run if a console app is packaged and how to solve it?

[bogdan-patraucean]

using System.Management;

namespace ConsoleApp1
{
    internal class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            ManagementScope scope = new(@"root\DEFAULT");
            ManagementPath path = new("SystemRestore");
            ManagementClass mClass = new(scope, path, new ObjectGetOptions());
            var restorePoints = mClass.GetInstances().Count;

            Console.WriteLine(restorePoints);
        }
    }
}

All I want to do is to count the system restore points, but this seems to be more difficult than I thought.

I have a WinAppSDK packaged app, and first I thought the issue was related to WinAppSDK, but as pointed by @DarranRowe in this discussion, seems it could be a problem with .NET runtime.

So, the console app, will run just fine and the code will execute elevated, but ones the console app is packaged using a C# application packaging project, it fails with the same error it fails in the WinAppSDK app:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154)

What could be the cause of this error in a packaged app? Should I open an issue?

[huoyaoyuan]

There's probably nothing to do with .NET runtime. The packaged app process is not granted for enough permission.