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MattGregory
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Aug 20, 2020
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Customizing Visual Studio MSIX packaging project output

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 end.   ...
  • Tanaka_Jimha's avatar
    Sep 01, 2020

    Hi MattGregory ,

     

    The output directory of the packages is defined in the Microsoft.AppxPackage.Targets file at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\AppxPackage (depending on your version of Visual Studio).

    If you want to remove the "_Test" suffix you can modify the lines defining the output directory. In my file it was around line 3190 - 3196:

     

    To modify the output html file, modify the index.template.html file in the "Landing" subdirectory - C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v16.0\AppxPackage\Landing (depending on VS version).

     

    Cheers,
    Tanaka

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