Packaging CefSharp winforms app as msix bundle

[smitelij]

Hi,

I've been packaging CefSharp as a winforms app (.exe / application files) for the last year or so and it's been working great.
I had a request come in to package this instead as an msix bundle for better roll-out support. From Visual Studio this seems easy enough (add an msix packaging project to the solution).

However, when trying to run this wrapper, it seems like CefSharp is missing all DLLs (AssertAllDependenciesPresent fails, and when turning that flag off I get general failure messages about not finding core cef dlls). Original winforms project still runs fine. Both projects build fine.

I've tried adding cefSharp dependencies to the msix packaging project (in addition to the core winforms project where they already are), but no luck there either. Thoughts or ideas on what might be going wrong?

Thank you in advance, and apologies, I am still a newbie Windows developer.

[smitelij]

Image A: screenshot of error when running the packaging project from Visual Studio

Image B: screenshot of error when running the installed application on machine (note- this is after turning off dependency checking)

[amaitland]

it seems like CefSharp is missing all DLLs (AssertAllDependenciesPresent fails,

What is the exact error you are getting? (No images of exceptions please)

Which files are missing?

and when turning that flag off I get general failure messages about not finding core cef dlls).

If the files are missing then an exception is expected.

I've tried adding cefSharp dependencies to the msix packaging project

Is your msix project using packages.config or PackageReference for Nuget?

If you are using packages.config then try adding the following to a PropertyGroup in your installer proj file before the .targets entries (which are at the bottom).

<CefSharpBuildAction>Content</CefSharpBuildAction>