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.NET 6 support for Framework Packaging

Open lukemcdo opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

.NET 6 is the future of .NET development, and MSIX is the future of Windows app deployment. Please add support for Framework Packaging to allow creation of .NET 5 apps packaged with MSIX without redistributing .NET 6 with each app that depends on it.

Ideally, this will be followed up with a Visual Studio template referencing .NET 6 to use this framework package, along with the user's choice of UI framework (WinUI, WPF, WinForms, or blank/none).

Consider working with the Windows Store team to notify users when their framework package .NET runtime is out of date (assuming major releases are packaged separately).

Edit: Updated from 5 to 6, as my request remains the same but clearly the .NET 5 window has passed.

lukemcdo avatar Jun 05 '20 00:06 lukemcdo

@richlander

terrajobst avatar Jul 09 '20 20:07 terrajobst

Any news on that issue? Is it even possible in near future?

maxkatz6 avatar Jul 29 '20 08:07 maxkatz6

It's surely possible, considering .NET 5 UWP apps are already technically possible. Previews shouldn't be distributed via framework packages anyway so I wouldn't expect it soon.

I mostly opened this issue hoping for a firm commitment for .NET 5, since I really don't want to wait for the next LTS (6.0) for a good distribution method.

lukemcdo avatar Jul 29 '20 22:07 lukemcdo

@terrajobst I see that this got raised in the Deployment and Servicing guidance issue, but it appears not to have made the cut for the proposed feature list for .NET 6.0?

lukemcdo avatar Dec 31 '20 19:12 lukemcdo