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How to convert .Net 4.5 or VC++ Redistributable pre-requisite related apps
Hi All, Could anyone advice how to convert the apps to MSIX which has .Net 4.5 or VC++ Redistributables as pre-requisites. 1. Do we need to bundle VC++along with the main application in MSIX? 2. I...
Aditi_Narvekar
Microsoft
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- Hi All,
Could you please provide any suggestion on this type of request conversion to MSIX???- Obviously, not an authoritative Microsoft response, but...
Prerequisites of this type (I am excluding the .Net Framework itself) may be handled either inside or external to the package.
As a general rule, I prefer to include redistributables in the package when repackaging an existing installer into MSIX.
When building an MSIX package as a developer, it would be great to mark the package as having a package dependency on a package containing the dependency, but not enough are publicly available through nuget packages and the like, so I often include them in the ingredients of the package.
