Blogs from TMurgent
The Package Support Framework (PSF) was originally a Microsoft open-source project to help Win32/DotNet applications run when inside an MSIX Container. TMurgent has taken up the support for the PSF in our own fork here on GitHub.
Version v2026.02.22 of the Package Support Framework released today.
It mostly consists of logging changes, but a couple of things:
This article is about a little understood feature for MSIX packages that Microsoft added. Due to poor documentation, when originally released we deemed it unworkable. Recent discoveries in how to overcome the AppXManifest issues in how to implement have lead us to re-investigate this feature. We find, that while of limited practical use, there are application packages that need the …
TMEditX is the licensed and so 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]
TMEditX:
The Package Support Framework (PSF) was started by Microsoft as an Open Source Project to help Win32 and .Net Framework based software operate in the new MSIX Container runtime, however the latest changes are now made in my own fork at https://github.com/TimMangan/MSIX-PackageSupportFramework/tree/develop .
The “v.2022.02.28” release adds additional updates to the PSF to improve compatibility with older applications.
Modernization of …
The Package Support Framework (PSF) was started by Microsoft as an Open Source Project to help Win32 and .Net Framework based software operate in the new MSIX Container runtime, however the latest changes are now made in my own fork at https://github.com/TimMangan/MSIX-PackageSupportFramework/tree/develop
November brings new changes to the PSF, and while some much needed improvements are part of the mix, …
Yesterday, I announced the formalization and availability of my own branch of the PSF to support MSIX in this blob post: New home for the PSF: 2021 Sept – Confessions of a Guru (tmurgent.com). Today, I am following up with announcements of two important software releases (immediately available) to leverage this improved version of the PSF.
In both cases, …
The Package Support Framework (PSF) was started by Microsoft as an Open Source Project to help Win32 and .Net Framework based software operate in the new MSIX Container runtime.
Today I am embarking on replacing it.
For quite some time I have been the primary/only person working to add improvements to the project. The PSF is used by …
I recently posted a twit with the following caption:
Achievement unlocked. Re-package 70 apps with PSF with
click on one button into #MSIX packages. MMPT + upcoming
version of TMEditX with command line option to fix the
packages.70 Enterprise apps repackaged into MSIX with the PSF in 2.5 hours with one click. Let’s boil this down so others who …