Suggest alternative actions when MAUI Templates are not installed with VS 2022 Preview 6.0

Description

Originally requested in dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs as issue #25794.

During the MAUI Blazor docs tutorial, I could not follow the steps, as I did not have the templates installed in Visual Studio 2022 Preview 6.0.

After several installations and uninstallations of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 6.0 the MAUI templates still did not show up in the “New Project” screen, and I was totally lost.

I found a solution where I queried the dotnet new --search MAUI, and found a dotnet template package that included these templates mentioned in the tutorial.

My suggestion is that the tutorial could mention that the MAUI Templates are aquireable with the dotnet new -i Microsoft.Maui.Templates command.

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• ID: e66171ce-7dca-bf91-36be-f02e38c00678
• Version Independent ID: e66171ce-7dca-bf91-36be-f02e38c00678
• Content: Build a .NET MAUI Blazor app
• Content Source: aspnetcore/blazor/hybrid/tutorials/maui.md
• Product: aspnet-core
• Technology: aspnetcore-tutorials
• GitHub Login: @guardrex
• Microsoft Alias: riande

Public API Changes

Not an API request

Intended Use-Case

I want to be able to follow the tutorial outlined in the following docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/blazor/hybrid/tutorials/maui?view=aspnetcore-6.0 My suggestion is that the tutorial could mention that the MAUI Templates are aquireable with the dotnet new -i Microsoft.Maui.Templates command.

[Tonur]

Thank you guardrex, I appreciate you adding it. Sorry for comming across harsh, I meant no disrespect.

[guardrex]

@Tonur … During preview, we typically only document workarounds for known bugs if the product unit isn’t able to resolve the problem quickly. Since it’s now known that this may linger for a little while, I’ll add a note to the doc and remove it at GA.