If you are a programmer, you know how to distribute your files. Probably you can simply zip all files and give them to users. But then, users may get confused as to where to unzip the files and how to ...

Functionally, it acts like an app store for power users and developers, but without the graphical interface. You simply type ...

After you have written the code for some awesome application, you of course want other people to be able to use it. Although ...

With a little bit of XML you can automate creating Windows installers for your code, right from your CI/CD pipeline. All Windows applications need to be installed. Sure, you can just wrap your ...

At its Build 2020 conference, which had to be held as an online-only event this time around due to the coronavirus outbreak, Microsoft had a bunch of announcements to make, some of which include new ...

No more DLL hell. That was just one of Microsoft Corp.’s goals when it introduced the Windows Installer service along with Windows 2000 nearly four years ago. The service, which now runs on Windows XP ...

Picture the ultimate replacement for the Windows Store app. Let’s imagine it allows for installing nearly any Windows application; no clicking through software installation wizards; automatically ...

Microsoft has finally revealed a long requested feature; a Windows package manager called Winget that allows you to easily install applications from the command line. Commonly used in Linux to install ...

Microsoft has released the open-source Windows Package Manager for developers and general users to install applications on Windows 10. The Windows Package Manager service and the winget.exe ...