When I self sign my app packages, visual studio only allows me to create a security certificate that is valid for one year. How can I create a timestamp url or where can I find a free timestamp url...

I'm trying to create an installer for an Winui3 app and add to it an external msi file. So far I've tried Wix toolset and Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects but both create an msi file cont...

I have upgraded an MSIX WPF app to .NET 8 from .NET 7, and it runs fine on my own computer. But when I try to build it in Azure DevOps, I get the errors: C:\agent\_work\_tool\dotnet\sdk\8.0.100\Sdk...

I'm trying to work out how to package a WinUI desktop application in MSIX. We don't want to upload to Windows Store or anything, just to be able to give people an installer (much like a .msi file),...

I currently work on a Python project, which I'd like to upload to the Microsoft Store in the future. As far as I am aware, in order to upload applications to the Microsoft Store, it is necessary th...

I am creating an .msix package from VS 2019. The application being packaged is a .NET Core 3.1 WFP desktop app. The package (.msixbundle) executes correctly and is named correctly. However, the fol...

I created an installation package with MSIX out of a .NET MAUI Windows app and a self-signed certificate, using a PFX file. When I try installing it on another Windows 10 machine, I get the followi...

We have a .NET Core application which only will be used in-house. We changed from Click-Once to MSIX during our switch from WPF to .NET Core. In the window caption/title of our application we also ...

I'm using a Visual Studio MSIX packaging project to create an installer on a network share for an internal application. One problem is that it's creating a directory with "_Test" at the e...

I have a .NET 6 Windows Desktop app that I deploy with MSIX. I can run and debug it on my own computer, but it fails to build with Azure Pipelines YAML. I get the error: C:\Program Files\dotnet\sd...

Using Visual Studio 15.9.4, we are creating a UWP side-loading package. We are getting the new msix/msixbundle outputs. There is no association in windows for right-clicking and installing this e...

I'm trying to follow the Microsoft documentation but I'm confused as to why my appinstaller is failing: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <AppInstaller xmlns=&quot...

Question: How do I get the MSIX appinstaller to output the correct settings during each build/publish? Context: This is a follow-up question to Why does the MSIX not automatically check for updates...

Question: Why does the MSIX not automatically check for updates every time the application runs when sideloading is enabled? Context: We are migrating a WPF application to Azure and have created an...

I have an MSIX package that I need to be able to allow users to install from a web page on versions of Windows older than Windows 10 build 1709. This is possible with MSIX Core. However the documen...

I have wpf project with multiple target frameworks <TargetFrameworks>netcoreapp3.0;net48</TargetFrameworks> In vs2019 I created Windows Application Packaging Project (MSIX package) an...

Can anyone give me a hint how I can manually define a msix package? My application has no msi package (yet), so I can’t simply convert it. Is there a way to create like a configuration file where I...

Basically we are releasing our changes/fixes in the form of manual installer (Windows PowerShell script). It will install specified .dll and SQL script files at particular locations by readin...