My latest submission has been integrated into the Develop branch to the Package Support Framework GitHub repository. PR#145 adds a new type of fixup, RegLegacyFixups, created for certain Registry issues seen in some packages. There are a couple of small fixes added to standard components as well (see the Pull Request for details on those), but the new …
Tag: MSIX
Solving DLL Not Found issues in MSIX
The new DynamicLibraryFixup component of the Package Support Framework simplifies the task of ensuring that processes in your package find dlls that are also in your package.
Background
Applications use a variety of techniques to ensure that the exe used to start a process can load the dll files they require. In general, the dll is loaded through a Windows …
PsfTooling 3.6
I’m happy to announce that version 3.6 of PsfTooling is now available in the Microsoft Store. As always, this is a free download. PsfTooling is used as an aid in conjunction with the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to help inject and configure the PSF into MSIX packages.
For those unaware, PSF stands for Package Support Framework, an open source …
What’s new in the PSF April 2020
Back in February I posted this blog post describing changes that I was making to the PSF to improve app compat, along with a note that it might take a bit for Microsoft to integrate the Pull Request.
For those unaware, PSF stands for Package Support Framework, an open source utility that I contribute to for helping traditional Win32 …
PsfTooling 3.5 for MSIX Repackaging
assiveInstall version 3.5.0 was released today in the Microsoft Store. A free tool, it is used along with the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to inject and configure the Package Support Framework to fix common issues seen in repackaging existing Win32 and DotNet Framework based applications for MSIX.
Version 3.5 includes a pre-built version of the PSF with the improvements I …
What’s new in the PSF Feb 2020
For those unaware, PSF stands for Package Support Framework, an open source utility that I contribute to for helping traditional Win32 and DotNet applications run inside the MSIX packaging container. This article contains information regarding new contributions.
First of all, the title of this article is a lie. The correct title for this article, if it weren’t so long, …
MSIX and Services
icrosoft announced what they are going to do about Services and MSIX at AppManageEvent in Utrecht in October 2019, but we were able to get more details about them at Microsoft Ignite in November. The following are taken my notes from the events.
Given Microsoft’s stance on keeping things inside the container, we were surprised to hear that the implementation …
PsfTooling 3.1.0
Recently, I outlined changes I made to the MSIX Package Support Framework (PSF) in this post. In that post I indicated that there was to be a follow-up submission into the PSF and then I would be releasing a new version of the free PsfTooling tool that includes the updated PSF. That work is now complete.
PsfTooling 3.1.0 is …