How do I create an msixbundle for a UWP project?

Question

I have two xamarin.forms projects that currently only utilize the UWP platform. One creates msixbundles when publishing and the other creates appxbundles when publishing. I can't seem to find any key difference between the Package.appxmanifest or the uwp project files that would cause this. I would like to make them both produce msixbundles. Does anyone know the key to creating msixbundles vs appxbundles?

Answer 1

The apps targeting Windows 1809 and newer are automatically packaged bundled as msix/msixbundle . And here is official release note .

We added support for creating.MSIX packages for both the Universal Windows Platform projects, as well as in the Windows Application Packaging Project template. To create an.MSIX package, the minimum version of your application must be the latest Windows 10 SDK (build 17763).