On Thu Aug 28 09:47:36 2025 +0000, Nikolay Sivov wrote:
Is this just for an experiment, or what are the real use cases?
Apps distributed through the Windows Store/winget repos are only available as appx/msix(bundle) packages. Currently, the only way to get them to run is to decompress the ZIP archive, and then try running the executable. This isn't guaranteed to work because appx packages also contain COM classes that need to be registered, file extension associations, etc.
Additionally, some UWP/WinRT apps are actually launched by activating an out of COM server described in the package manifest, and not just launching the executable.
This allows us to be able to read and traverse OPC packages, which is the first step towards supporting appx/msix packages.