CI/CD for WinForms / WPF Apps in Practice — Automating from Build to Signing and Distribution with GitHub Actions (archived 2026-07-27)

A practical guide to setting up CI/CD for WinForms / WPF apps with GitHub Actions. Covers a minimal YAML for build+test on windows-latest, tag-driven version numbering, wiring up signtool for code signing, and a CI-integration decision table broken down by MSI/MSIX/ClickOnce/xcopy. Archived version of https://comcomponent.com/en/blog/winforms-wpf-cicd-github-actions/, as published on 2026-07-27. The live article is maintained and may change after this date. First published 2026-07-17.