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>>pjmlp+(OP)
Yay, it's the latest attempt at Project Centennial!

(For context, Microsoft has been trying for 7 years various methods to get developers to please package their apps in some way. Almost nobody has ever bit - to the point the Microsoft Store only has been having some recent success by promising packaging isn't required.)

https://petri.com/microsofts-project-centennial-unsuccessful...

>>gjsman+n5
I have spent weeks of my life trying to get windows packaging to work. Twice with APPX, twice with MSIX. Mostly with greenfield C# apps, sometimes with existing WPF apps. Every year I think: surely it'll work now, they just published another blog post touting the new features? No. Every time I run into something that's not documented how to be done, something that's not implemented, or something that's broken, often with a detailed bug report that nobody at Microsoft has bothered responding to (e.g. [0] one of many).

Windows is in maintenance mode. Nothing new and substantial they create will ever get to a working state, they just don't have the resources. I have given up.

[0]: https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/8141

>>mastax+cq1
There are quite a few packaged apps in the store. I personally made 2.