Packaging, deployment, and query APIs

Use these APIs in your desktop apps to create, consume, deploy, or query app packages for Windows apps:

• Packaging API
• Package deployment API
• Package query API

Use these APIs in your desktop apps to deploy or query app packages:

• Windows.ApplicationModel.Package
• Windows.ApplicationModel.PackageId
• Windows.Management.Deployment.PackageManager
• Windows.Management.Deployment.PackageUserInformation

Use these APIs in your UWP apps to query app packages:

• Windows.ApplicationModel.Package
• Windows.ApplicationModel.PackageId

Related topics

Samples

Packaging, deployment, and query SDK samples

Concepts

App packages and deployment

Packaging, deployment, and query of Windows apps

Glossary

Other Reference

App package manifest schema