Hi, As all the other vendors in the Packaging Tool business like Flexera, InstallAware etc. who have the support for creating PSF shims within their tool itself, can MSIX Packaging Tool also have this incorporated within it which will not requiring install other freewares for including supporting for PSF while using the MSIX packaging tool.   BR, DS2803   ... View more

Currently MSIX deployed desktop application (eg. Winforms or WPF) are automatically updated only when app is launched by Start menu item. When user launch app by clicking on app taskbar button or on app desktop shortcut, check for update is not launched. So if new version is available and user runs app always by shortcut or by taskbar button, new version is never detected and thus never installed. This is wrong, because users strongly prefer runs app by desktop shortcut or by taskbar button. Thus I ask to implement checking for update also by clicking on desktop shortcut and on taskbar button. More description you can find on GitHub issue https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/msix-docs/issues/59 Thanks ... View more

There are times when integration is required and the container gets in the way.  The upcoming Shared Package Containers will help when both parts are MSIX packages, but not so much when the secondary is not containerized.   In App-V this was solved by RunVirtual, a way to designate that a given process name should run inside a particular virtual environment.  This would also work for MSIX, but I'd like to propose a different idea that likely would offer solutions to more kinds of problems with containerization and multiple applications.   What I would like is a new addition to the AppXManifest whereby I can list some named processes to be controlled.  If a process is named, it would have one of two settings, marking the process to explicitly run inside or outside of the container.  This list would only apply to new processes being started as a child process of a process already in the container.   The flexibility of this would be quite helpful as more apps move into the container. ... View more

Visual Studio offers the Windows developers an integrated workflow to easily create MSIX packages from within their development environment.   But creating an App Attach ready app is a long process, and it is even more complicated to further publish it to AVD.   Recommendation: To enable developers to create and test AVD App Attach ready apps, and publish from within their Visual Studio development environment. ... View more