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The MAUI app project template does not target windows out-of-the-box

See original GitHub issue

Description

Following the steps to create a MAUI app, I get a project that does not target windows:

Steps to Reproduce

Create a new project using the “.NET MAUI App (Preview)” template
open dependencies in the solution explorer

Version with bug

Unknown/Other (please specify)

Last version that worked well

Unknown/Other

Affected platforms

Windows

Affected platform versions

I don’t know how to see the version of the project templates - or how to update those other than when updating VS itself

Did you find any workaround?

I can fix this in the project file by removing the xml comments around this line

<!-- <TargetFrameworks Condition="$([MSBuild]::IsOSPlatform('windows')) and '$(MSBuildRuntimeType)' == 'Full'">$(TargetFrameworks);net6.0-windows10.0.19041</TargetFrameworks> -->

and changing this section

<ItemGroup Condition="$(TargetFramework.Contains('-windows'))">
    <!-- Required - WinUI does not yet have buildTransitive for everything -->
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK" Version="1.0.0-experimental1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK.Foundation" Version="1.0.0-experimental1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK.WinUI" Version="1.0.0-experimental1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK.InteractiveExperiences" Version="1.0.0-experimental1" NoWarn="NU1701" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Graphics.Win2D" Version="1.0.0.26-experimental1" />
</ItemGroup>

<ItemGroup Condition="$(TargetFramework.Contains('-windows'))">
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK" Version="1.0.0" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Graphics.Win2D" Version="1.0.0.30" />
</ItemGroup>

Relevant log output

No response

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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Dbquitycommented, Jan 28, 2022

I was merely curious - half expecting an explanation along the lines you just gave 😃 Thanks again for a very quick answer! (my next step is to try publishing to windows - and I will be following your bullet 4 from issue 4329) (edited to get rid of the linking between issues, since that seems not very relevant…)

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jfversluiscommented, Jan 28, 2022

I think you need to update your templates, this has not been the default for a while now. To clarify: the recent versions of templates have Windows enabled by default for a couple of previews already.

For some reason the templates aren’t updated nicely with Visual Studio, you can update them manually at this time by running the following command in a terminal window: dotnet new -i Microsoft.Maui.Templates

Also check this portion of a video by James for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugem4UbAtC0&t=672s

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