Create MSI from EXE in MAUI

Question

Hi,

In cmd i create the exe of MAUI App.

using this command:

dotnet publish -f net8.0-windows10.0.19041.0 -c Release -p:WindowsPackageType=None -p:WindowsAppSDKSelfContained=true /p:PackageCertificateThumbprint="c01ba45666762f3615cf6813aeb4dc4b1919541d" -p:RuntimeIdentifierOverride=win10-x64

How I create MSI ?

Thanks,

Answer 1

You cannot use the donot command to generate MSI package. However, you can use the Visual Studio Installer Projects Extension or other Visual Studio extensions for this purpose. For more information, please refer to this document:

create an installer package windows desktop