Inside MSIX
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Demystifying MSIX Architecture, Development, Deployment and Troubleshooting
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- Is it MSIX? Part 3: Find Package and Application Identity with TASKLIST and PowerShell
- Is it MSIX? Part 2: Finding Package Identity with APIs
- Is it MSIX? Part 1: How to Tell if a Process Is Packaged
- Footprint vs Payload files
- PackageType: Main, Framework, Resource, Optional, Bundle
- MSIX PackageVolume: How Package Storage Works
- Servicing While In Use and ERROR_PACKAGES_IN_USE
- What Kind of Packaged Process Is It?
- What’s a PFN?
- Remove and Package Lifetime
- Remove Is Not Uninstall
- Package Integrity and Enforcement
- Display Name is for Humans
- Package Status
- Applications Are Not Packages
- MSIX Per-User vs All Users: Install, Provision, and Uninstall Packages
- Add vs Stage and Register
- Third Rule of MSIX
- Staging Part 2 – Disk Space Optimization
- Staging Part 1 – Sharing is Caring
- Deployment Operations, Requests and Queue
- Package Identity
- Is This a Packaged Process?
- There is no Install – it’s ‘Stage’ and ‘Register’