Microsoft.Windows.SDK.BuildTools.MSIX is missing buildTransitive

[mattleibow]

Describe the bug

The new Microsoft.Windows.SDK.BuildTools.MSIX package is missing the buildTransitive folder and targets. There is a build, but that is only included if the nuget is directly/explicitly referenced by the csproj.

Since all the nugets are transitive dependencies of the windows app sdk, it fails to build msix.

Steps to reproduce the bug

1. Download App11.zip
2. Run
3. Observe the failure to deploy
4. Uncomment the 2 build tools nugets
5. Run
6. Observe the happy place

Expected behavior

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Screenshots

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NuGet package version

Windows App SDK 1.8 Experimental 4: 1.8.250702007-experimental4

Packaging type

Packaged (MSIX)

Windows version

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IDE

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Additional context

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• Microsoft.Windows.SDK.BuildTools is missing buildTransitive #3251 , similarity score: 88%

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[Scottj1s]

In the build, we can just copy ./build to ./buildTransitive as we do for other packages. Note that buildTransitive supports PackageReference (C#) only, so build will need to remain for packages.config (C++).

[Scottj1s]

Fixed in Microsoft.Windows.SDK.BuildTools.MSIX 1.7.20250728.1