These are just some of the highlights of this release. For a complete list of changes, please check out the release notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Visual Studio 2022 on Windows now includes .NET 8 previews and the .NET MAUI preview workload. Download the latest preview version 17.7 Preview 2, select the .NET Multi-platform App UI workload, and then check the optional component “.NET MAUI (.NET 8 Preview)”.<\/p>\n If you are on macOS, you may download the .NET 8 preview 5 installer<\/a>, and then install .NET MAUI from the command line:<\/p>\n To verify that everything is installed correctly, you can run the following command:<\/p>\n You should see something like this:<\/p>\n And to verify you have the correct .NET MAUI workload, run the command:<\/p>\n You should see something like this:<\/p>\n To update your .NET MAUI project to use 8.0.0-preview.5.8529, you first need to install the .NET 8 Preview 5 SDK and then update the .NET MAUI NuGet packages in your project. You can use Visual Studio or Visual Studio for Mac to manage your NuGet packages or edit your project file manually.<\/p>\n To use Visual Studio or Visual Studio for Mac, right-click on your project and select “Manage NuGet Packages…” then select the “Include prerelease” option and search for Microsoft.Maui. packages. Update all the packages to version 8.0.0-preview.5.8529. To edit your project file manually, open it in a text editor and find the Your project file should have an Now you can build and run your project using Visual Studio or Visual Studio for Mac or use the dotnet build command with the -t:Run target:<\/p>\n This will build and launch your app on an Android emulator or device.<\/p>\n We appreciate your feedback and contributions to .NET MAUI. You can report issues<\/a>, suggest features<\/a>, or submit pull requests<\/a> on our GitHub repository. You can also join our Discord server or follow us on Twitter to stay in touch with the latest news and updates.<\/p>\n Thank you for your support and happy coding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" .NET MAUI makes its way to .NET 8 Preview 5 and is full of new quality improvements for developers across the entire framework. In addition, we are introducing NuGet packages even greater flexibility going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":46096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[685,7233],"tags":[7701,7238],"class_list":["post-46095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dotnet","category-maui","tag-dotnet-8","tag-net-maui"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" .NET MAUI makes its way to .NET 8 Preview 5 and is full of new quality improvements for developers across the entire framework. In addition, we are introducing NuGet packages even greater flexibility going forward.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/dotnet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How to update<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\ndotnet workload install maui<\/code><\/pre>\ndotnet --list-sdks<\/code><\/pre>\n8.0.100-preview.5.23303.2 [C:\\Program Files\\dotnet\\sdk]<\/code><\/pre>\ndotnet workload list<\/code><\/pre>\nInstalled Workload Id Manifest Version Installation Source\r\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\nmaui-windows 8.0.0-preview.5.8529\/8.0.100-preview.5 VS 17.5.33627.172, VS 17.7.33808.371\r\nmaui-maccatalyst 8.0.0-preview.5.8529\/8.0.100-preview.5 VS 17.5.33627.172, VS 17.7.33808.371\r\nmaccatalyst 16.4.8525-net8-p5\/8.0.100-preview.5 VS 17.5.33627.172, VS 17.7.33808.371\r\nmaui-ios 8.0.0-preview.5.8529\/8.0.100-preview.5 VS 17.5.33627.172, VS 17.7.33808.371\r\nios 16.4.8525-net8-p5\/8.0.100-preview.5 VS 17.5.33627.172, VS 17.7.33808.371\r\nmaui-android 8.0.0-preview.5.8529\/8.0.100-preview.5 VS 17.5.33627.172, VS 17.7.33808.371\r\nandroid 34.0.0-preview.5.312\/8.0.100-preview.5 VS 17.5.33627.172, VS 17.7.33808.371<\/code><\/pre>\nUpdating existing projects<\/h3>\n
ItemGroup<\/code> element that contains the PackageReference<\/code> elements for Microsoft.Maui.<\/em> packages. Update all the Version attributes to 8.0.0-preview.5.8529.<\/p>\nItemGroup<\/code> that looks something like this:<\/p>\n<ItemGroup>\r\n <PackageReference Include=\"Microsoft.Maui.Controls\" Version=\"$(MauiVersion)\" \/>\r\n <PackageReference Include=\"Microsoft.Maui.Controls.Compatibility\" Version=\"$(MauiVersion)\" \/>\r\n <PackageReference Include=\"Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug\" Version=\"8.0.0-preview.5.23280.8\" \/>\r\n<\/ItemGroup><\/code><\/pre>\ndotnet build -t:Run -f net8-android MyMauiApp.csproj<\/code><\/pre>\nFeedback Welcome<\/h2>\n