How To Deploy MSIX In Another PC

Question

I have created a winUi 3 desktop application. I have publish that application using sideloading and it has generated a MSIX package for installation. When I'm installing and running that package in my PC it's working fine but when I installing that package in another pc (my friends pc) it installed but when I'm lunching that application it gives error

Is that compulsory to have a dotnet to launch MSIX application??

Answer 1

As mentioned by Markus Meyer in his comment, you need dotnet for your application, not MSIX.

Basically you now have two options for your application with MSIX:

1. Require dotnet to be installed on your target machine(s) as prerequisite
2. Publish you application as self contained (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/#publish-self-contained )

This previous question may also help: MSIX: How to achieve automatic install of .net 5 required for my application? , especially this link https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/msix/msix-how-to-achieve-automatic-install-of-net-5-required-for-my/mp/2372896/highlight/true#M880 for details from the above discussion.