Cant launch windows uno 5.2 sdk app from vs2022

[cconner100]

I am in the process of converting a few projects from Microsoft.NET.Sdk to Uno.Sdk. 2 of my 3 projects have converted and can run from within VS2022 preview 7.0 but one can't be launched. I get the following dialog box when I try to debug

DEP1700: The recipe file "C:\Users\curtisconner\source\repos\ZiiDMSV2\Client\Desktop\ZiiDMSApp\ZiiDMSApp\bin\Debug\net8.0-windows10.0.22621\ZiiDMSApp.build.appxrecipe" does not exist. You may need to build your project.

I have checked that i have deploy selected from the configuration, I have also looked at others who have had this issue and their solutions don't seem to work with this given problem.

net8.0-windows10.0.22621-Debug-win-arm64.zip

attached is a binlog. Here is my csproj for reference.

<Project Sdk="Uno.Sdk">
	<PropertyGroup>
		<TargetFrameworks Condition="$([MSBuild]::IsOSPlatform('windows')) or '$(EnableWindowsTargeting)' == 'true'">net8.0-windows10.0.22621</TargetFrameworks>
		<TargetFrameworks>
			net8.0-android;
			net8.0-ios;
			net8.0-maccatalyst;
			net8.0; <!-- needed for testing platform -->
			$(TargetFrameworks);
		</TargetFrameworks>

		<OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
		<UnoSingleProject>true</UnoSingleProject>

		<!-- Display name -->
		<ApplicationTitle>ZiiDMSApp</ApplicationTitle>
		<!-- App Identifier -->
		<ApplicationId>com.ZiiDMS.ZiiDMSApp</ApplicationId>
		<!-- Versions -->
		<ApplicationDisplayVersion>1.0</ApplicationDisplayVersion>
		<ApplicationVersion>1</ApplicationVersion>
		<!--
      If you encounter this error message:

        error NETSDK1148: A referenced assembly was compiled using a newer version of Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.dll.
        Please update to a newer .NET SDK in order to reference this assembly.

      This means that the two packages below must be aligned with the "build" version number of
      the "Microsoft.Windows.SDK.BuildTools" package above, and the "revision" version number
      must be the highest found in https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Windows.SDK.NET.Ref.
    -->
		<!-- <WindowsSdkPackageVersion>10.0.22621.28</WindowsSdkPackageVersion> -->

		<!--
      UnoFeatures let's you quickly add and manage implicit package references based on the features you want to use.
      https://aka.platform.uno/singleproject-features
    -->
		<UnoFeatures>
			Hosting;
			Toolkit;
			Logging;
			MauiEmbedding;
			Mvvm;
			Configuration;
			Localization;
			ExtensionsCore;
		</UnoFeatures>
	</PropertyGroup>

	<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)'=='Debug' or '$(IsUiAutomationMappingEnabled)'=='True'">
		<IsUiAutomationMappingEnabled>True</IsUiAutomationMappingEnabled>
		<DefineConstants>$(DefineConstants);USE_UITESTS</DefineConstants>
	</PropertyGroup>

	<ItemGroup>

		<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console" />
		<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Graph" />

		<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection" />

		<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Http" />
		<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Http.Resilience" />

		<!-- Community Toolkit stuff -->
		<PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.Mvvm" />
		<PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.WinUI.Animations" />
		<PackageReference Include="CommunityToolkit.WinUI.Controls.SettingsControls" />
	</ItemGroup>

	<!-- this is for windows specific packages -->
	<ItemGroup Condition="$([MSBuild]::GetTargetPlatformIdentifier('$(TargetFramework)')) == 'windows'">
		<!-- WinUICommunity packages -->
		<PackageReference Include="WinUICommunity.Core" />
		<PackageReference Include="WinUICommunity.Components" />

	</ItemGroup>

	<ItemGroup>
		<ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\..\Framework\Client\ZtClientFramework.Maui\ZtClientFramework.Maui.csproj" />
		<ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\..\Framework\Client\ZtClientFramework\ZtClientFramework.csproj" />
		<ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\..\Framework\Shared\ZtFramework.BRPInterfaces\ZtFramework.BRPInterfaces.csproj" />
		<ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\..\Framework\Shared\ZtFramework.Settings\ZtFramework.Settings.csproj" />
		<ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\..\Framework\Shared\ZtFramework\ZtFramework.csproj" />
		<ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\..\GlobalResources\GlobalResources.csproj" />
		<ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\..\ToBeDeleted\AppShare\AppShare.csproj" />
		<ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\Common\ZiiDMSApp.Common\ZiiDMSApp.Common.csproj" />
	</ItemGroup>

</Project>

[jeromelaban]

Thanks for the report. Could you provide the command line you're using to build?

[cconner100]

I am just hitting debug from vs2022, the output is because i set the logging to diagnostic, if i need to do something else let me know

[cconner100]

OK here is an additional buildlog using this command line, the error still occurs

MSBuild.exe /restore /p:AppxBundle=Never /p:UapAppxPackageBuildMode=Sideloading /p:Configuration=Release;Platform="Any CPU" /p:AppxPackageDir=C:\temp\Output\ /p:AppxPackageSigningEnabled=false /r /bl
msbuild.zip

[cconner100]

I tried a new uno project from scratch, checked my system with Uno-check, then created a new project with the vs2022 extension. It gets the same error. I also installed vs2022 released and vs2022 pre-release both get the same issue. attached is the standard uno solution.

ControlTestApp.zip

[cconner100]

OK here ya go

Video on creating new Uno project and trying to run
https://packingslips.blob.core.windows.net/video/PackageBuild.mp4

Video trying to use the above command lines that you gave me
https://packingslips.blob.core.windows.net/video/CommandLine.mp4

Note: copy and paste the above links into a browser, not sure why github is blocking

binlog of the last run on the video
msbuild.zip

Note all the above was run on an Asus 15 laptop I7 and 16gb memory. Windows 11 with all service packs applied, Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise with all service packs applied, uno-check run clean and only using the code created by the uno wizard.

Let me know what else i can supply.

[jeromelaban]

Thanks, this helps.

For the command line part, make sure to run the msbuild command in the folder of the app head which contains the .csproj, not in the solution folder. Otherwise, msbuild will try to find a solution configuration that matches the Configuration parameter, which is not present. It's written in the doc that is in the PR, but it's likely not visible enough, we'll make changes.

I can confirm that the appxrecipe error, we'll be looking into it.

[jeromelaban]

The appxrecipe error is related specificly to enabling MAUI embedding. The workaround is to add the following in the app's csproj:

<PropertyGroup>
   <EnableMsixTooling>true</EnableMsixTooling>
</PropertyGroup>

We'll be fixing this in unoplatform/uno.extensions#2295.

[jeromelaban]

The extensions fix is now published. You can update your <ExtensionsVersion> in Directory.Build.props to 4.1.23 to fix the MAUI embedding build issue.

[cconner100]

Thanks, back working again.