v0.3_230514

This is the seventh preview of DISMTools, with new features and enhancements:

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the extended AppX package getter would fail if the PowerShell execution policy wasn't set correctly
• Fixed an issue related to setting file generation where the background process notification setting would not be in a new line

New features

General

• Introduced the update system
• Introduced startup settings, beginning with the program being able to reload the servicing session of orphaned images
• Introduced secondary progress panel styles (options to configure these are unavailable for now)

AppX packages

• Enhanced the context menu of the AppX package removal dialog
  • If the application manifest file cannot be found, the "View resources of" entry will be hidden
  • If the application display name defined in the manifest started with ms-resource:, the entry above will reflect the package name
  • If an application is architecture-neutral, the program will now look at other package folders, excluding the neutral directory, for an application manifest
  • For framework packages, the program will now display the package display name instead of <Framework>true</Framework>

v0.3_230507

This is the sixth preview of DISMTools 0.3, with new features and enhancements:

Bugfixes

No bugfixes were made in this release

New features

Active installations

• Introduced online (active) installation management
• Introduced a new program flag, /online, to directly enter this mode

Background processes

• You can now configure more settings of background processes

AppX packages

• You can now view a package's directory, and its resources, from the package removal dialog

v0.3_230430

This is the fifth preview of DISMTools 0.3, which comes with new features and enhancements:

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where direct actions other than mounting would not be disabled after unloading an image from a project
• Fixed an issue where adding AppX packages would fail if there were case variations in their extension

New features

Provisioning packages

• Introduced addition of provisioning packages (.ppkg files)

AppX package addition

• Checks are now performed when adding applications to the queue list to prevent adding the same package or adding different versions of such packages

• When attempting to add encrypted application packages (.eappx, .emsix, and so on), you will now receive a warning

Miscellaneous

• The program can now change color modes when restored from the minimized state

v0.3_230423

This is the fourth preview of DISMTools 0.3, with new enhancements and fixes:

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where project creation would fail after cancelling the background processes
• Fixed an issue where the program would use the old method of gathering image information on a newly created project

New features

Options

• You can now manipulate file associations in the Options dialog

Packages

• Package manipulation operations now use the DISM API

Unattended answer files

• The creation wizard now supports color modes, and will switch to a dark theme to follow the program's theme settings

Dependencies

• Added the DarkUI, DockPanelSuite and DockPanelSuite.ThemeVS2012 NuGet packages

v0.3_230416

This is the third preview release of DISMTools 0.3, which comes with new features and enhancements:

Bugfixes

• Re-added exception control for Windows 8 hosts when getting AppX packages from an image

New features

Drivers

• Introduced driver package management through simple, intuitive interfaces

Removed features

• Removed Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 host support from the application manifest

v0.3_230409

This is the second preview release of DISMTools version 0.3, which comes with new features and enhancements:

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that happened in the options dialog where the selected item of the font ComboBox was "" at first
• Fixed a critical issue where the DISM API would throw an invalid traces exception and fail operations. This occurred on the progress dialog and when background processes were running
• Fixed an issue where the log file name of the most recent log file would change to append the name of the next log file
• Fixed an issue which made the program unmount external directories, whether they were actual mount directories or not

New features

Setup and arguments

• Introduced the initial setup screen, which will be used in the future when you load DISMTools for the first time

• The program now supports arguments that can be passed at startup, the following of which are:

  • /setup, to launch the initial setup screen
  • /load=<project full path>, to load the specified project immediately

  Here is an example:

DT-CmdArgs.mp4

Settings

• The program now saves appropriate language codes when saving the settings file

Mounted images

• Introduced a popup mounted image picker, which is now used on the image unmount dialog

Capabilities

• Introduced image capability (Features on Demand) management

Useful features are:

• The capability addition dialog supports getting the source from group policy

This feature will be ported to the image cleanup and feature enablement dialogs

v0.3_230402

This is the first preview of DISMTools 0.3, with some enhancements:

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the program always gathered information from the first image index
• Fixed an issue where the program would think a project with an image mounted didn't have one when an image was unmounted with the mounted image manager
• Fixed an issue where background processes would keep running when a project was unloaded
• Added exception control for other parts of background processes

New features

• Increased default window size to 1280x720
• Feature manipulation now uses the DISM API to gather information from a feature

v0.2.2

This is the release version of DISMTools v0.2.2, with some changes from the last preview, or lots of changes from the last release

Changes from last preview

• Fixed an issue where the progress panel would not update the language settings properly
• Enhanced language support
• Fixed an issue which kept operations from performing when the log file directory was deleted
• Fixed an issue which showed removed (already-disabled) features in the feature disablement dialog
• Fixed an issue where the program would not perform operations with any operation value containing spaces
• The "New project..." and "Open existing project..." menu entries are now functional, and the latter now allows for fast project switching

DT_ProjectSwitch.mp4

Preview release feature recap

Overall bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the program would not get image properties if multiple images were mounted
• Fixed an issue with the background processes window where, if the main window was moved before opening it, it would show in the wrong location
• Fixed an issue where the Settings window would appear in the top-left corner of the screen when showing image detection settings with the main window minimized
• Fixed a critical issue where the program would crash when clicking "Project properties" if the mounted image detector was running
• Fixed an issue where the program assumed there was an image mounted on a newly created project
• Fixed an issue where the background processes would start when a servicing session of an image not loaded was reloaded from the mounted image manager
• Fixed an issue where the program always assumed every image loaded had read-only permissions
• Fixed an issue where the mounted image detector would not start after loading the Project/Image properties dialog
• Fixed an issue where the image unmount dialog assumed every directory was a mount directory
• Fixed a critical issue where the program would crash when loading the image index removal dialog (Preview 3 -> Preview 4)
• Fixed an issue that didn't disable the actions in the mounted image manager when no item was selected
• (Not shown) Added exception control for Windows 8 hosts when getting AppX packages of an image

Overall new features

Language support

• Added almost-complete language support

  You will recieve a warning when you switch to any language other than English, simply because translations aren't complete yet.

• Added options to detect system language

Project creation

• Project creation doesn't require the target directory to exist before proceeding, as it can now be created automatically, if you so choose

DISM API

• This API is now used in more places, such as the volume image removal dialog, the image index switcher, or image mounting

AppX package addition

• Added the store logo asset previewer, which completes the properties panel and gives you a chance to view a higher-res version of an application's store logo asset

• Added support for drag-and-drop, compatible with all application package types (APPX/MSIX/APPXBUNDLE/MSIXBUNDLE, whether packed or unpacked)

Image mounting

• You don't need to click "List indexes" to get a glance of all indexes of an image anymore. They are now automatically shown as soon as you specify an existing image

Post-builds

• Update 1 backports the following critical bugfix from the latest DISMTools 0.3 preview
• Update 2 backports the following bugfix, which will make it in the next preview of DISMTools 0.3. If you've already downloaded DISMTools 0.2.2, or Update 1, it is important to download this update

v0.2.2_230326

This is the final preview of DISMTools v0.2.2, with new enhancements and bugfixes:

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the image unmount dialog assumed every directory was a mount directory
• Fixed an issue where the program would crash when loading the image index removal dialog
• Fixed an issue that didn't disable the actions in the mounted image manager when no item was selected
• Setting file generation now reflects version 0.2.2

New features

Language support

• Language support is now more enhanced

AppX package addition

• The drag-and-drop feature now supports folders, and so does the store logo asset previewer
• The program now gives a visual feedback to let you know drag-and-drop is performing its actions

Index switcher

• The image index switcher now uses the DISM API for better performance

New projects

• Project creation no longer requires the target folder to exist in order to continue. Now you will be asked if you want to create it

v0.2.2_230319

This is the 3rd preview of DISMTools v0.2.2, which comes with bugfixes and new features

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where the mounted image detector would not start after loading the project and image properties dialog

New features

Project and image properties

• The program now gets the correct feature update/development semester of Windows 11 2022 Update Moments since Moment 3 and the new Dev builds (23xxx build range)

AppX package addition

• The store logo asset previewer now supports APPX and MSIX files. It also supports showing a larger preview, and the dialog now supports drag and drop

NOTE: drag and drop only works on applications that have been granted admin privileges to.

Volume image removal

• The volume image removal dialog now uses the DISM API for better performance