144: Package Up Those .NET Core 3 Apps

So long Desktop bridge and hello MSIX, the new hero of packaging and distributing Windows applications (and maybe more). James walks through his new .NET Core 3 WPF app and how he stumbled upon MSIX. We also discuss what the heck it is, the downsides, the upsides, and the future of packaging up apps.

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Links:

• What is MSIX? - MSIX | Microsoft Docs
• Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows: An installation and update framework for Windows desktop apps
• Snaz stream tool
• jamesmontemagno/MyStreamTimer: A cool app to count up or down that writes text to file for streamers
• My Stream Timer
• msix-packaging/preview/Win7Msix at master · Microsoft/msix-packaging
• Microsoft/msix-packaging: MSIX SDK