Blogs from TMurgent
It took more than 3 years for this to creep into my brain.
Over the six years since the original release MSIX Microsoft has added schema extensions to handle situations that the original MSIX didn’t support. COM support is a very important area of these improvements. But originally the documentation was either incomplete or wrong, and we weren’t sure what …
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.
A new update to the PSF has been released. From the release notes:
Updated RegLegacyFixup to more certain intercepts from Kernel32.dll
TMEditX is the licensed and much more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package. [Download_page]
To start up the end of the year, we have more new features and fixes to improve your packaging! The PSF version is updated to release (v2024.01.02 from …
The Package Support Framework (PSF) was originally an 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.
A new update to the PSF has been released. From the release notes:
TMEditX is the licensed and much more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package. [Download_page]
To wrap up the end of the year, we have a bevy of new features to improve your packaging! The PSF version remains the same this release (v2023.08.28 …
AppAttach is a technique that uses “application layering” methods to quickly mount and publish MSIX applications in non-persistent (pooled) VDI scenarios and shared operating systems like RDS and Multi-user Windows 10.
MSIX AppAttach is the Microsoft-branded feature for Azure Virtual Desktops that uses this technique to deploy applications to AVD sessions. Other vendors with application management features also use this …
Microsoft added a custom UI option for MSIX Packages several years back, but the only reference to it was a web page How to create a custom App Installer UX – MSIX | Microsoft Learn that contained the following notice:
Because of this note, we have been ignoring this capability. I recently detected that the page had been updated, although …
TMEditX is the licensed and more capable tool for fixing up MSIX packages since it doesn’t have to depend on the Microsoft MSIX Packaging Tool to create the final package. [Download_page]
It took a while to get this release out due to our busy schedule, but here it is! Link to the download page: TMEditX Download (tmurgent.com)
