Chapter 11: Publishing Your Application
When you build Windows desktop applications, there's another stage of the project that is equally important to the development phase: the deployment. If you build the best application in the world, but the deployment process is complicated and prone to errors, your customers will be equally dissatisfied, and they will just give up.
However, the deployment technology is only one side of the coin: once you have found the right one, you need a platform to distribute it.
In this chapter, we're going to address all these challenges by going through the following topics:
- Understanding the MSIX packaging technology
- Creating and signing an MSIX package
- Publishing your application to Microsoft Store
- Publishing your application to a website using AppInstaller
- Publishing your application to the Windows Package Manager repository
We have mentioned MSIX and the Windows App SDK package model multiple times in...
