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TaylorBrown
Brass Contributor
Dec 18, 2018

MSIX Command Line Argument

Hey guys,   I'm trying to convert an App-V package to an MSIX package. I've tried using the packager to make a new package from scratch, and I've tried converting the package.   Normally, my prog...
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Bogdan Mitrache
Iron Contributor
Dec 19, 2018

Hi Taylor,

 

This is a well known limitation.

 

The solution is to have a stub/launcher used as entry point instead of your main app and that launcher can in the end launch your application with the desired command line parameters.

 

When MSIX was announced in March, Kevin Gallo introduced the free Express edition from Advanced Installer. This is a setup authoring tool that can convert old setups to MSIX, or import an existing MSIX package and package it, providing additional functionality, like a GUI based method for you to specify command line arguments and many others (Advanced Installer takes care of the details in the background, i.e. includes a launcher that saves your command line args and passes them to your main application).

 

So all you need to do is to import your current MSIX package into a new project in Advanced Installer, go to Application Details page and set your args in the "Arguments" field. Then build the MSIX package again.

 

 

 Disclaimer: I work on the team building Advanced Installer.

 

 

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