{"id":3344,"date":"2021-12-07T14:50:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2021-12-07T15:01:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T20:01:26","slug":"new-free-msix-book-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=3344","title":{"rendered":"New (free) MSIX Book Released"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"514\" height=\"663\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ADevelopersGuideToMSIX.png\" alt=\"A Developer's Guide to MSIX book cover.\" class=\"wp-image-3345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ADevelopersGuideToMSIX.png 514w, https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/ADevelopersGuideToMSIX-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I am really excited to announce the availability of a new (and free) community Ebook on MSIX that is for developers of traditional Win32 and\/or .Net Framework applications that are interested in modernizing to MSIX.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book took 12 months to come to fruition, and my co-authors have been invaluable in helping ensure that we have both great coverage and great examples on how to achieve certain features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Written with help from developers at both Revenera and Flexera, this 238 page book was written with the following goals in mind:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To educate on what MSIX is, and to help you make the case to your management on why you need to start a project to modernize.<\/li><li>To provide an overview, and step-by-step actions, to analyze your current application\/installer and make the changes necessary to modernize under MSIX.<\/li><li>To provide links to the numerous online documentation resources for MSIX and, importantly, commentary to help you understand the missing &#8220;why&#8221; aspects of available options.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A huge <em>Thank You<\/em> goes out to co-authors Banna, Vara, and Kiran for their persistence in getting this huge book finalized, and to their companies Revenera (the Install Shield company) and Flexera (the Admin Studio company).  Also a <em>Thank You<\/em> to Microsoft&#8217;s own Matteo Pagani for writing the book introduction.  I also thank Bob Kelly and Venkat Ram Donga for providing their corporate support for this community project, and of course to our editor Tyler Stanczak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>A Developer&#8217;s Guide to MSIX<\/em><\/strong> is free and hosted on the Revenera website (a registration is required but you can request to not be contacted) and you can find out more through this link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/appV\/en\/resources\/books\">TMurgent Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am really excited to announce the availability of a new (and free) community Ebook on MSIX that is for developers of traditional Win32 and\/or .Net Framework applications that are interested in modernizing to MSIX. The book took 12 months to come to fruition, and my co-authors have been invaluable in helping ensure that we&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/?p=3344\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New (free) MSIX Book Released<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,51],"tags":[9,52],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-msix","category-training","tag-book","tag-msix","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3346,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tmurgent.com\/TmBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}