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Cam06002
Cam06002

Reputation: 53

Errors when trying to publish .Net Maui project after previous success

I have been working on a .Net Maui app to replace a Python app I built for my company's payroll team. Several previous iterations of this app have allowed me to publish via sideloading. However, I have been unable to publish a new version for a couple of days now.

If I try to publish via sideloading, I get the following error:

MSB4057 The target "_GenerateAppxPackage" does not exist in the project.

--this error claims to be stemming from line 1 of my .csproj file.

I attempted another route to publish it as an executable file following the answer provided in this stack overflow answer, and received the following error:

C:\User\MyFirstName : general error c1010070: Failed to load and parse the manifest. The system cannot find the file specified.

As well as another error that says looking for the manifest existed with a code 31.

Further up, before that error hits, there is a line that says:

Skipping target "MauiGeneratePackageAppxManifest" because all output files are up-to-date with respect to input files.

I am running VS 17.4.0 Preview 3.0 on Windows 11. I have tried to roll back my code through git (up to 3 versions back), as well as copying local files into a new project, and I get these same errors every time.

It may also be worth mentioning that my Windows Defender and Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool both updated between when I was last able to publish successfully and when the problem arose. I had also updated Visual Studio, but tried to roll that back and publish, and it received the same errors.

Is there anyone who can help me figure out what is going on here, or point me in the right direction? I can provide code samples if need be, though on a limited basis because this is a private project.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1577

Answers (2)

Christopher Kaggwa
Christopher Kaggwa

Reputation: 11

I also experienced this while using the publish option in Visual studio, then tried publishing from the terminal and it worked. Try this

cd <PathToYourMauiProjectFolder>

dotnet publish -f net7.0-windows10.0.19041.0  -c Release /p:RuntimeIdentifierOverride=win10-x64

Upvotes: 1

Jessie Zhang -MSFT
Jessie Zhang -MSFT

Reputation: 13909

For this, you can refer to document : Publish a .NET MAUI app for Android/IOS/Windows.

Above documents explain the steps to publish android, ios and windows app, respectively.

You can follow the steps step by step. Under normal circumstances, there will be no problem.

Upvotes: 0

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