Experiences in porting UWP app to Win3 and .Net 8

Sometimes I play a developer on the Internet. This is one such day. Let me tell you about my latest experience…

Background

I have a looooong running side project that I started over 40 years ago.

I was a developer writing in a variant of Fortran on proprietary hardware, OS, and even are own compilers. The company decided to get …

MSIX Shortcuts Revised

These last couple of weeks I have been busy researching into problems some customers were having with MSIX packages with shortcuts. This post will bring you up to date on some new information on how MSIX works, and details on how TMEditX is changing handling these issues starting in version 4.6.

History of the source of the problems

Traditionally applications …

Patch to the PSF, PsfTooling, and TMEditX for Windows 10

Last week I posted on social media about an issue we ran into in our current training class.  The issue was preventing apps that included the PSF from working on certain Windows 10 operating systems.

The problem has been identified and fixed, resulting in a slew of releases:

  • PSF version v2024.06.07 of the TimMangan fork of the Package Support Framework.

PsfTooling 6.9 Release

 PsfTooling is the free tool to work in conjunction with the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool.   [Download_Page]

 

Release Notes:

  • Uses PSF version v2024.02.04, plus a small patch for the next release, from the TimMangan branch.
  • Fix to ensure PSF dependencies are included when using the PsfTrace or FileRedirection Fixups.

Availability:

This release is available immediately from the TMurgent …

Accolades for TMEditX 4.4

TMEditX is the licensed and much more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages, better than PsfTooling since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package.  [Download_page]

More new features and fixes to improve your packaging! The PSF version is release the same as for 4.3, which is v2024.02.04, plus a small …

Wait, we can actually package Process Monitor?

For this post, I have to give some credit to someone else. But I should not name the person because they didn’t realize that what they did should not have worked. So, thanks to this unnamed accomplice!

We all think that we ‘know’ that you can’t use application virtualization to virtualize device drivers. Thus, attempting to virtualize Process Monitor, which …

TMEditX 4.3 Release Notes

TMEditX is the licensed and much more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages, better than PsfTooling since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package.  [Download_page]

More new features and fixes to improve your packaging! The PSF version is release the same as for 4.2, which is v2024.02.04, plus a small …

A deep look at Application Deployment with AppVentiX

AppVentiX is an alternative third-party product that can be used for Software Distribution in a corporate environment.  Known originally as a simple replacement for the App-V Server, it has grown in capabilities, both in the types of packages supported and in different kinds of infrastructures it may be placed into, including both on-prem and in the cloud.   In this article, …

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