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Supporting a modular Windows application with MSIX and Optional Packages

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Matteo Pagani
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Jan 23, 2020
MSIX aims to become the best packaging and deployment technology for Windows desktop applications and, on this blog, we have seen multiple times its advantages: the clean install & uninstall experien...
Updated Jan 24, 2020
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JoeHae365
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May 20, 2020

Matteo Pagani Thank you for this great article, I was hoping to find exactly that information.

We are about to start porting our WPF application to .NET Core and then we want to make use of MSIX as well. Our application als relies heavily on plugins, some of which are provides by our company others are coded by the customers themselves.

 

From your previous answer I can see, that AppInstaller files allow a customer to define the exact installation bundle in regards of plugins and dependencies for every department individually. Which is absolutely awesome.

 

What I am not 100% clear at the moment: Can you deploy an AppInstaller file through central desktop management tools also? Or should you handle the msix packages and their interdependencies through your desktop management, if you have that kind of central deployment?

Documentation says "App Installer allows for Windows 10 apps to be installed by double clicking the app package". In most enterprise scenarios (we know), users never have to / are allowed to install anything themselves.

 

Thank you for clarifying.