A couple of posts came back when I was researching the squirreltemp folder after getting a firewall notification for update.exe, a program whiich had disappaered by the time I opened its folder. At first I was worried about it being malicious and well, in a certain way I guess it is (just kidding) because its associated with Windows apps. Anyway, I found no posts which actually explained what it was so I figured I'd add this.
Squirrel is both a set of tools and a library, to completely manage both installation and updating your Desktop Windows application, written in either C# or any other language (i.e., Squirrel can manage native C++ applications).
Squirrel uses NuGet packages to create installation and update packages, which means that you probably already know most of what you need to create an installer.
Source: https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows
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