DarranRowe

Out of curiosity, what is the minimum targeted version in the appxmanifest file? If you set the minimum version to 10.0.19041.0, does the new syntax work?

@bogdan-patraucean Your repro sets that as the target version, not the minimum version. What I mean here is, for example ``` ``` In the package.appxmanifest file. Your reproduction has: ```...

IIRC, the biggest thing getting in the way of the Windows App SDK being usable for Native AOT is Cs/WinRT. The .NET projections are created using Cs/WinRT. What's more, since...

I can understand the confusion since there was never any mention of the package. But the same kind of question applies for packaged applications. In the instructions above, there is...

>@petercoin sorry it's just standard console app in c# not 'packaged' or 'unpackaged' with added wappssdk If it isn't packaged, it is unpackaged.

The changes to PublishTrimmed are already in the [project templates](https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/blob/main/dev/VSIX/ProjectTemplates/Desktop/CSharp/SingleProjectPackagedApp/Properties/PublishProfiles/win-x64.pubxml). The issue is that these project templates haven't been made available in Visual Studio yet.

Just to ask, is [BITS](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/bits/background-intelligent-transfer-service-portal) not viable for you? If you just don't like the COM API then I totally understand.

> ... and I get 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED) when I try to download a file (maybe Internet capability...) That all depends on where you are trying to download it to. When...

Yeah, the security principle you want is all application packages.  It is badly named because it comes from the Windows 8 days where packages and app containers...

The PasswordVault documentation does indicate that there is a difference in behaviour between an application in an AppContainer and one not in an AppContainer. There are two avenues of investigation...