Install

Get Signoff Studio running on Windows App v26.8.10 (MSIX / Microsoft Store) and/or VS Code Extension v0.2.72. Both hosts share the same React webview for API / Runner / DB. Continue with the Starter Guide after install.

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Windows (MSIX / Microsoft Store)

• Platform Availability: Windows Only
• Overview: Install Signoff Studio from the Microsoft Store (product

  9N84PSBKPC47

  ), or download the MSIX package from qasignoff.com/download. The Store delivers updates; after an update is ready, close and reopen the app so Windows can swap the package. Workspaces stay intact.
• How It Works (Windows App):
  1. Open the Store listing, or go to qasignoff.com/download → Download for Windows (

     SignOff-studio.msix

     ) or Get it on Microsoft Store.
  2. Click Get / Install (Store), or open the downloaded MSIX.
  3. Launch Signoff Studio from Start.
  4. After a Store update: close every Signoff Studio window, then reopen; Help → About should show 26.8.10 (or newer).

• How It Works (VS Code Extension): N/A — use Marketplace / VSIX below.

• Code / Configuration Examples:

Requirements: Windows 10 or later
Store product: 9N84PSBKPC47
Workspaces:    %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Signoff Studio\  (or your chosen folder)

• Edge Cases, Troubleshooting & Pro-Tips:
  • Uninstall keeps your workspace folders on disk.
  • If About still shows an old version after a Store update, fully quit the app (check Task Manager for leftover

    QaSignOff

    processes) and reopen.
  • Legacy NSIS desktop installers are no longer offered; use the MSIX or the Microsoft Store.

GAP IDENTIFIED: The Store app is not available inside VS Code. Extension users still benefit from installing the Windows Store app for Git workbench and always-on monitors.

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VS Code Marketplace / Open VSX / VSIX

• Platform Availability: VS Code Only (also Open VSX clients such as Antigravity and VSCodium)
• Overview: Install Signoff Studio from the Visual Studio Marketplace or Open VSX (

  qasignoff.qasignoff-vscode-extension

  ) for auto-updates, or sideload a

  .vsix

  for QA builds (sideloaded builds do not auto-update).
• How It Works (Windows App): N/A for extension packaging — optional companion install.

• How It Works (VS Code Extension):
  1. Open the Marketplace listing, the Open VSX listing, or in VS Code: Extensions → search Signoff Studio → Install.
  2. Open the Signoff Studio Activity Bar icon.
  3. Click Open Signoff Studio or Command Palette → Signoff Studio: Open.

• Code / Configuration Examples:

code --install-extension qasignoff.qasignoff-vscode-extension
code --list-extensions --show-versions | findstr qasignoff

• Edge Cases, Troubleshooting & Pro-Tips:
  • No

    contributes.configuration

    and no contributed keybindings — configure inside the webview.
  • If the webview is blank after update: Developer: Reload Window.
  • Confirm extension version 0.2.72 (or newer) via Extensions detail.

GAP IDENTIFIED: VS Code has no native Git tab and monitors only fire while the panel is open. Install the Windows Store app when you need those capabilities.

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Welcome & first workspace

• Platform Availability: Full Parity (Welcome UI). Default paths Partial.
• Overview: First launch offers Import Existing Project or Create Collection. Dismiss with X and return via Import or + New collection. Prefer importing the Starter Guide collection + httpbingo env.
• How It Works (Windows App):
  1. Launch the app → Welcome.
  2. Import

     signoff-studio-starter.signoff.json

     + env, or create a blank collection.
  3. Workspaces default under

     Documents\Signoff Studio\

     .

• How It Works (VS Code Extension):
  1. Open Signoff Studio from Activity Bar / command.
  2. Same Welcome choices inside the editor webview.
  3. Pick or create a workspace folder (path may differ from Documents default).

• Code / Configuration Examples:

Starter downloads (see Quick Start):

• signoff-studio-starter.signoff.json
• signoff-studio-starter.httpbingo.signoff.env.json

• Edge Cases, Troubleshooting & Pro-Tips:
  • Closing Welcome does not delete data.
  • Use workspace menu /

    qasignoff.manageWorkspaces

    to juggle multiple roots.

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Modes after install

• Platform Availability: API / Runner / DB Full Parity; Git Windows Only
• Overview: Top bar switches product modes. Schedulers only run while the UI is open.
• How It Works (Windows App): Use API, Runner, DB, Git.

• How It Works (VS Code Extension): Use API, Runner, DB only.

• Code / Configuration Examples:

• Edge Cases, Troubleshooting & Pro-Tips:
  • See Interface tour for annotated chrome.
  • See Parity & gap report before assuming feature parity.

GAP IDENTIFIED: Git mode is Windows Only.

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Next

1. Quick Start — import Starter Guide and complete core workflows
2. Interface tour
3. Settings · Shortcuts