Change Output Folder Publish-> Create App

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Change Output Folder Publish-> Create App

Fritz Switzer 321

I've changed the location of a folder for my MS Store app, from C:\Projects_2024 to C:\Projects_2025. Previously when I went to Publish->Create App Packages... it create my msix in the Projects_2024 sub directory. However, now that I am building the app in the Projects_2025 Folder and I Create a new msix, it goes to the old Folder.

How/Where do I change the Output folder so my newly created msix will go to the Projects_2025...App Packages?

Dou Xu-MSFT 400 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-07T02:53:55.0933333+00:00

Hello @Fritz Switzer, are you following this guide Package a desktop or UWP app in Visual Studio to pack your app? If so, could i confirm with you that you want to change this Output Folder in below picture?

Regards, Dou
Fritz Switzer 321 Reputation points

2025-03-07T14:23:51.37+00:00

Dou,

I am not following that guide. Besides that is for project output files.

I am creating a msix package to MS Store. The app is for a .NET Maui Windows Platform app.

After I select Project->Publish->Create App Packages... appears, then the attached image. There is no option to select and Output folder.

Try it with a .NET Maui app that you want to submit to the Store. Where can you change the Output folder for the created App Packages?
Fritz Switzer 321 Reputation points

2025-03-07T14:24:46.95+00:00

See my answer, it should be the comment.

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Dou Xu-MSFT 400 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-07T02:53:55.0933333+00:00

Hello @Fritz Switzer, are you following this guide Package a desktop or UWP app in Visual Studio to pack your app? If so, could i confirm with you that you want to change this Output Folder in below picture?

Regards, Dou
Fritz Switzer 321 Reputation points

2025-03-07T14:23:51.37+00:00

Dou,

I am not following that guide. Besides that is for project output files.

I am creating a msix package to MS Store. The app is for a .NET Maui Windows Platform app.

After I select Project->Publish->Create App Packages... appears, then the attached image. There is no option to select and Output folder.

Try it with a .NET Maui app that you want to submit to the Store. Where can you change the Output folder for the created App Packages?
Fritz Switzer 321 Reputation points

2025-03-07T14:24:46.95+00:00

See my answer, it should be the comment.

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Wenyan Zhang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co,.Ltd.) 36,086 Microsoft External Staff

Hello,

Please refer to this doc- Publish a .NET MAUI app to a folder for Windows - .NET MAUI | Microsoft Learn

At step4-a, there is an image showing how to select the options (package location).

Best Regards,

Wenyan Zhang

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Fritz Switzer 321 Reputation points

2025-03-10T14:03:12.57+00:00

Thanks, I would also like to know where that change occurs in my project/solution.

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