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Iron Contributor

May 11, 2018

WiX Toolset support

Do you plan to contribute to the WiX Toolset project so we can generate MSIX packages from our existing WiX projects?

Brass Contributor

Jun 06, 2018

We (https://www.firegiant.com/) are updating our https://www.firegiant.com/r/appx/at this very moment to support MSIX.

Rob Mensching | CEO | https://www.firegiant.com/

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Copper Contributor
Jun 14, 2018

Rob Mensching wrote:
We (https://www.firegiant.com/) are updating our https://www.firegiant.com/r/appx/at this very moment to support MSIX.
Hi Rob, do you have a schedule?

Thanks,
Sascha
- Rob Mensching
  Brass Contributor
  Jun 14, 2018
  We have an internal build working now. If you are a FireGiant customer contact https://support.firegiant.com/ and they should be able to get you access to an early build.
  
  Otherwise, we're kinda' waiting to see when Windows fixes the double-click issue we https://twitter.com/firegiantco/status/1004294259615227904. Given the presentations at Build where MSIX works seamlessly, we think there might be a lot of confusion for our Trial users if an MSIX built by our tools was not immediately double-clickable.
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    Copper Contributor
    Jul 06, 2018
    Rob Mensching wrote:
    Otherwise, we're kinda' waiting to see when Windows fixes the double-click issue
    I just installed the lastest Windows 10 insider build (17704) and did a quick test by creating an empty .msix file in lieu of a real one. Double-clicking on that .msix file brings up the message "The app package cannot be opened", so the file type actually is registered now (which is also confirmed by looking it up in the registry under "HKCR\.msix").
    
    Looking forward to see MSIX support in the public trial version of the Firegiant WiX extension.

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