I have a WPF app App1 (.NET 6 with <TargetFramework>net6.0-windows</TargetFramework>) and my client would like to distribute it through MS Store so I created a Windows Application Packaging Project and add reference back to App1. Everything works well and we can publish our app except with just a Hello World project, the package size is more than 60MB (for neutral arch).
I understand it is due to it packing the whole .NET 6 with it. Is there a way to publish it using framework-dependent model instead? We don't mind user being asked to download and install it if they don't have it already installed.
CodePudding user response：
Follow these steps to create a framework-dependent MSIX package:
- Right click on the WPF project (not the Windows Application Packaging Project) in the Solution Explorer in Visual Studio and choose Publish
- Choose Folder as both target and specific target and accept the default location in the wizard
- Click on the "Show all settings" link of the created publish profile and set the target runtime to win-x86 or win-x64 depending on your CPU architecture requirements
- Make sure that the deployment mode is set to Framework-dependent
- Click Save
- Go to the Windows Application Packaging Project, expand the Dependencies->Applications node, select the referenced WPF application project and set its Publishing Profile property to the
Properties\PublishProfiles\FolderProfile.pubxmlfile that you created in the previous wizard - Re-publish the Windows Application Packaging Project with the same CPU architecture and configuration you have configured the publishing profile for