Summary
The adoption of the DevOps mindset and practices is becoming increasingly important to deliver successful software projects. CI and CD are critical parts of a successful DevOps implementation since they help you to ensure the quality of the applications you build and enable you to release updates more often and with confidence.
However, when it comes to adopting CI and CD for Windows desktop applications, there are a few challenges we must consider: versioning, signing, the need to distribute updates to a wide range of machines running the application, and more.
In this chapter, we explored how we can create a CI/CD pipeline for a Windows desktop application using one of the most popular platforms in the world for developers: GitHub. Thanks to GitHub Actions and the provided runners, we can automate all the tasks that are needed to produce a deployable Windows application: for instance, generating an MSIX package, versioning it, signing it with a certificate, and then...
