If you're already familiar with the basics of publishing an MSIX application to the Microsoft Store, you're ahead of the game.

Branding an installation package plays a key role in today’s competitive digital landscape. It helps you differentiate your application in a crowded marketplace. Especially, for those in the application packaging industry, understanding how to brand an MSIX package is crucial to building trust and enhancing user experience.

In business, we often have to weigh the differences between expenses and true investments. Take the application packaging industry, for example.

When deploying software, configuration files are the key to customizing behavior without modifying the source code.

Repackaging aWin32 app with Java dependencies as MSIX can often be challenging.

Application packaging is an ever-evolving domain, and MSIX has become the de facto choice for IT professionals and developers.When an application is packaged as an MSIX, it runs within a containerized environment that provides isolation and security.

Struggling with creating an MSIX package for a native Ahead-Of-Time compilation (AOT) application? You're not alone. With AOT apps becoming more popular, it's essential to streamline this process.

MSIX applications can behave differently when running in an MSIX container.

Alright, let's dive into the fascinating world of portable applications!

Even though MSI is still the preferred packaging format, there's no question that MSIX is a great complement to MSI and AppV.

Java is an essential component within enterprise environments, powering various business-critical applications that are necessary for daily operations. However, it is also the most targeted platform for malware and cyber-attacks, posing a significant security risk to organizations that rely on it.

In this article, we'll explore how to deploy an MSIX using Group Policies, covering Direct MSIX Deployment with Scheduled Tasks and the MSI Wrapper method.

.NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI) is a cross platform framework designed for creating native mobile and desktop applications using C# and XAML. With the .NET MAUI platform, you can create applications that run on Android, iOS, MacOS, and Windows from a single code-base.

MSIX is a modern technology that has transformed the way we approach software installations and deployments, both for individual users and enterprises.

In some cases, changing the packaging type of an application requires going back to the drawing board. Even though Advanced Installer's GUI lets you convert MSIX packages by importing them, changing the packaging type of an application can still be a bit tricky.

As an IT professional, you might have come across Windows Forms (WinForms) when building applications on Windows. WinForms is a free and open source GUI class library included in the .NET Framework that has been heavily used since its release in 2002.

It is commonly known that MSX technology comes with a set of limitations that most of the packagers must deal with, in spite of all its benefits.

We are pleased to announce the Automatic MSIX Conversion and Compatibility Analysis Framework, moving us one step forward in our mission to provide software engineers with the most robust MSIX technology support in the industry.

Environmental variables, as their name implies, are variables that specify the environment in which a program runs.

In our previous blog post, Azure Virtual Desktop - Step by Step Guide of Creating, Configuring and Managing your AVD setup, we took a look at how we can set up an Azure Virtual Desktop environment.