MSIX Packaging Tools Install Size
To start off on a positive note, I'm thrilled to finally see a modern replacement for the horribly source-control-unfriendly "Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects" (.vdproj) files, but equally ...
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I think something is off with your machine, from what I see here the size around 25MB
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/msix-packaging-tool/9n5lw3jbcxkf?activetab=pivot:overviewtab
Hello Bogdan Mitrache and thanks for the reply.
It may be that you already have the prerequisites installed. It seems the big one for me that I don't have installed is the "Windows 10 SDK (10.0.18362.0)" which is 2.79 GB by itself. Then there appear to be another 7 GB of hidden dependencies that don't show up for me when selecting the "MSIX Packaging Tools" component. Unfortunately the Visual Studio Installer doesn't summarize which dependencies need to be installed for a given selection.
Cheers,
Matthew