New version of MSIX Packaging Tool and WIndows App Runtime Dependency

[TIMOTHY MANGAN]

Attention MSIX Packaging Tool team and @fizaazmi 

Reported to me by two different Microsoft customers.

The latest version of the MSIX Packaging Tool seems to automatically add a package dependency for the WindowsApp_Runtime package, even when packaging an app that does not use the Windows SDK.  This should not be in those packages, and while this should not block customers, it is causing them issues in situations where that package has not already been installed separately and automatic locating the package for installation in blocked.

The tool should only add that dependency if the dlls associated with the WindowsApp sdk are in the package.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi @TIMOTHY MANGAN

If the tool detects that the package has a desktop shortcut present, it automatically adds the Windows App SDK dependency in the package, along with the desktop7:Shortcut extensions in that manifest.

Can you please check if the packages in question have existing desktop shortcuts?

-Fiza,
PM, MSIX