So long Desktop bridge and hello MSIX, the new hero of packaging and distributing Windows applications (and maybe more). James walks through his new .NET Core 3 WPF app and how he stumbled upon MSIX. We also discuss what the heck it is, the downsides, the upsides, and the future of packaging up apps.
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Machine transcription available on http://mergeconflict.fm (http://mergeconflict.fm)Sponsored By:* Instabug (http://www.instabug.com/merge): The complete solution for bug reporting and in-app user feedback. Get 20% off any plan and a free 14-day trial. Go to instabug.com/merge to learn more. (http://www.instabug.com/merge) Promo Code: mergeconflict2019Support Merge Conflict (https://www.patreon.com/mergeconflictfm)Links:* What is MSIX? - MSIX | Microsoft Docs (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/msix/overview)* Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows: An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps (https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows)* Snaz stream tool (http://jimmyappelt.be/preview/snaz/)* jamesmontemagno/MyStreamTimer: A cool app to count up or down that writes text to file for streamers (https://github.com/jamesmontemagno/MyStreamTimer/)* My Stream Timer (https://mystreamtimer.azurewebsites.net/)* msix-packaging/preview/Win7Msix at master · Microsoft/msix-packaging (https://github.com/Microsoft/msix-packaging/tree/master/preview/Win7Msix)* Microsoft/msix-packaging: MSIX SDK (https://github.com/Microsoft/msix-packaging)