Package Identity

AdminStudio 2021 | 21.0 | MSIX Editor

Package Identity contains the properties which appear in the Package Identity tag of the appxmanifest.xml file. These properties uniquely identify the package. These properties are used to:

Identify if the package is already installed on the machine
Identify the main package to install the update package
Identify the main package to install the modification package

Use the Package Identity category to specify the following MSIX package properties:

Package Identity Properties

Property

Description

Package Name

Package Name Uniquely identifies the package. It is case-sensitive and should be free text with alpha-numeric, period and dash characters with no spaces.

Package Version

Version number of the package. A version string should be of the format Major.Minor.Build.Revision.

The last (fourth) section of the version number is reserved for Store use and must be left as 0 when saving the package.

Publisher

Name of the Publisher. The value must match with the Subject Name of the digital certificate file for successful signing.

Architecture

Describes the architecture of the code contained in the package.