Managing Sources

IPackageSourceService is the winget source equivalent, implemented via COM (not CLI parsing).

var sources = services.GetRequiredService<IPackageSourceService>();

Listing and reading sources

var all = await sources.GetSources();

foreach (var s in all)
{
    Console.WriteLine($"{s.Name}: {s.Argument} ({s.Type}, trust: {s.TrustLevel}, priority: {s.Priority})");
}

var winget = await sources.GetSource("winget");   // null if not configured

Adding a source

Elevation required

Adding and removing sources changes machine-wide state — WinGet returns AccessDenied unless the calling process is elevated.

using SubZeroDev.WinGet.Models;

var result = await sources.AddSource(new AddPackageSourceRequest("contoso", "https://pkg.contoso.com/source")
{
    Type = "Microsoft.PreIndexed.Package",   // or "Microsoft.Rest"
    TrustLevel = PackageSourceTrustLevel.None,
    IsExplicit = false,                       // true = hidden unless named explicitly
    Priority = 0,
},
progress: new Progress<double>(p => Console.WriteLine($"{p:F0}%")));

Source operations report percentage progress (0–100) rather than staged progress.

AddPackageSourceRequest also has CustomHeader, sent as a custom HTTP header on requests to the source — for REST sources (Microsoft.Rest) that need it for routing or identification.

Removing a source

// preserveData: false mirrors "winget source remove" (registration + data removed)
// preserveData: true  mirrors "winget source reset"  (registration removed, data kept)
var result = await sources.RemoveSource("contoso", preserveData: false);

Refreshing a source

Force the source's catalog data to update now:

var result = await sources.RefreshSource("winget");

Editing a source

Change the Explicit flag and/or Priority (higher priority sorts first):

await sources.UpdateSource("contoso", isExplicit: true);
await sources.UpdateSource("contoso", priority: 10);

At least one of the two must be provided; passing neither throws ArgumentException.

Results

Source operations return a SourceOperationResult with Succeeded, ErrorMessage, and the WinGet ExtendedErrorCode HRESULT.