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Add support for Advanced Installer

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
api

Research direction

No source files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reading the REST API implementation and the related winget-cli issue 4429 and winget-create issue 622; done means the API detects both .exe and .msi installers generated by Advanced Installer.

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Description

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Description of the new feature / enhancement

I'd like to have the REST API to be able to detect Advanced Installer generated/built installers.

Note:
There are .exe and .msi variations.

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Proposed technical implementation details

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