Confessions of a GuruOops, I did it again! Another Pull Request of mine has been accepted into the Package Support Framework Develop branch. This one is small, but makes debugging of launch issues with the PSF easier solves, and a couple of blocking issues affecting at least one app each.
…or we could call it “The mystery of the empty MSIXPackagingToolGeneratedFile.txt file” to be catchy!
The packaging format used by UWP, MSIX, and App-V files is loosely structured around formats based on the PkZip format specification. This format mostly has file references, with the file headers providing information about the path that the file lives under. So folders …
With the updates to the MSIX Package Support Framework for June 2020, described in https://www.tmurgent.com/TmBlog/?p=3095, I added a new type of fixup to the PSF, RegLegacyFixups.
Version 3.8 of PsfTooling is now available up in the Microsoft Store. This free tool is used alongside the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to add and configure the PSF into your recaptured package.…
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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …