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Tim Mangan
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Apr 18, 2021
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Shared package container

Great to see MSIX Shared Package Container - MSIX | Microsoft Docs finally seeing some light (for those that don't know, it is in a new insider preview build for the OS at this time).   I have so...
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    Dian Hartono
    Apr 20, 2021

    Hi Tim Mangan, Thanks for posting the question. Only the main package will need to be included in the shared package container .xml definition. In terms of framework packages, those will automatically be included. By their nature, modification packages and even optional packages are already launched via the main package's container so they too will not need to be specified. We will update the documentation accordingly to make it clearer. 

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Dian Hartono
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Apr 20, 2021

Hi Tim Mangan, Thanks for posting the question. Only the main package will need to be included in the shared package container .xml definition. In terms of framework packages, those will automatically be included. By their nature, modification packages and even optional packages are already launched via the main package's container so they too will not need to be specified. We will update the documentation accordingly to make it clearer. 

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    Siva116
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    Feb 03, 2022
    Do we have any documentation on the above statement. how to handle vc++ or .Net Framework related pre-req required application. how we manage these with shared container xml file???

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