Azure pipeline example for MAUI needs updating

[stewartsims]

I think there's a few outdated versions in these example build pipelines:

https://github.com/dotnet/maui-samples/blob/main/9.0/Apps/WeatherTwentyOne/devops/AzureDevOps/azdo_windows.yml

One that caught me out in particular is the windows framework / SDK version (net9.0-windows10.19041.0) is pretty out of date and causes errors if you use NuGet packages built with newer versions.

It would be good if this could be updated e.g. to net9.0-windows10.0.26100.0
Also I don't know if it matters but the --source locations in the 'dotnet workload install maui' command references 'dotnet7'?

[jfversluis]

Thanks for raising this! Yeah I think we might just need to remove the pipelines from individual projects. Its too much to keep it updated and its not really tested this way as well.

Are you looking for samples on pipelines? Would it be useful to have a separate category for that? What are things that you are looking for in particular?

[stewartsims]

Thanks for the quick response.

Yes an example pipeline for MAUI apps would be really helpful. We are only Windows and Android but I guess maybe one sample for Windows / Android & iOS builds that gets updated would do the trick. This existing sample was useful and I found it from the following blog post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/devops-for-dotnet-maui/
It got us 90% of the way there for our pipeline until we hit the issue with the Windows SDK. Once I figured out the old windows framework / SDK version was the issue we got it up and running.

We have currently implemented this pipeline purely to test the build process for Android and Windows and also run some unit tests on the app project. In the long term maybe we would have it produce and sign our new release artifacts (msix and .aab).