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[Feature Request] SDK for creating MSIX Packages

Open shmuelie opened this issue 7 months ago • 2 comments

We should have an SDK that uses the Microsoft.Windows.SDK.BuildTools.MSIX NuGet package to create MSIX packages. The SDK should include Project Properties for things like start up project, external location, and more.

In particular this would need to support:

  • Bundling multiple projects into one package
  • Packages with no Applications
  • Packages with External Location

Extras could include setting various Appx Manifest properties from the project file itself or merging Appx Manifest Fragments from the dependent projects

shmuelie avatar May 14 '25 15:05 shmuelie

This sounds more like a project template or two? Any suggestions what VSIX it would live in? We could consider bundling it with the WinAppSDK component VSIX...

Scottj1s avatar May 14 '25 17:05 Scottj1s

It could be a project template, and WASDK Could be a good way to ship it. I went with SDK approach as using a NuGet package to get something is lower friction than needing to install a VSIX, plus it's not tied to VS but can still be used in VS (like the other SDKs here)

shmuelie avatar May 15 '25 15:05 shmuelie