Microsoft Cancels App-V EOL, Adds to AppAttach for AVD

What does this mean?

Microsoft announced a change of plans for the End-Of-Life for App-V and inclusion into AppAttach for AVD at a conference in Hamburg Germany.  In this post I’ll outline what was said and offer my ideas on what it might mean for you.

At the MAD 2024 Conference in Hamburg Germany last week, Microsoft’s Jim Moyle and Sebastian …

What’s new in PSF v2024.10.26?

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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 v2024.10.26 of the Package Support Framework has been released.  This release includes the following:

  • Added a new option for PsfLaucher and

Why we think MSIX is now ready

Last week, at AppManagEvent in The Netherlands, we declared that (finally) MSIX is ready to be the first choice for enterprises to choose when repackaging applications for delivery to Windows.

It has been a long road for MSIX. When introduced 6 years ago, we said two things about MSIX:

  • It would become the future of applications, replacing App-V and

The new TMEditX 5.0 Mega-release

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]

TMEditX 5.0 has been released!

This is a big release, significantly improving your ability to get more apps working under MSIX.  Preliminary app-compatibility testing against

New addition to the PSF: PsfFtaCom

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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.

In the new release of the PSF we are now including a new component to help solve one of our constant challenges …

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 …