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.NET 8 SDK – Visual Studio 2022 Compatibility

Today being the second Tuesday of the month marks the occurrence of Patch Tuesday, signifying the release of a new set of updates.

The second preview for .NET 9 is now available in the Preview channel, while Quality updates have been made accessible in the stable channel.

Quite like the SDK, Visual Studio 2022 has also received updates. The latest update includes VS2022 17.10.0 Preview 2.0 and 17.9.3 in the Stable channel.

Note: The stable version 17.9.3 release incorporates .NET MAUI 8.0.7 (SR2) workload update, which was previously available as a NuGet package update.

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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit Maps in WinUI 3 App

This article provides a comprehensive guide on leveraging the Maps feature from the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit in a WinUI 3 App through the robust Embedding feature.

The CommunityToolkit.Maui.Maps NuGet package provides access to Bing Maps through a WebView on Windows. The Handler definitions for the Windows platform for the .NET MAUI Maps feature are hosted in this package.

To ensure the Maps feature functions correctly on the native WinUI 3 App, it is imperative to slightly adjust the feature initialization in the MAUI pipeline.

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Update on Windows Subsystem for Android

In a shocking revelation, Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of support for the Windows Subsystem for Android™️ (WSA). Consequently, from Wed, Mar 5, 2025, the Amazon Appstore on Windows and all associated applications and games reliant on WSA will no longer receive support.

Effective Mar 6, 2024, Amazon Appstore will no longer be available for download on Windows 11 devices via Microsoft Store. 😞

Update on Windows Subsystem for Android
Update on Windows Subsystem for Android
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Trusting Microsoft and .NET MAUI Toolkit NuGet Packages

While trying to restore the recent release of .NET MAUI Community Toolkit v6.0.0 and Markup Toolkit v3.3.0, faced this issue This package is signed but not by a trusted signer.

A similar signing issue came up while installing the workload of .NET MAUI on .NET 8 RC1. However a workaround was provided to overcome the signing issue by bypassing the sign check by trusting NuGet as the package source.