Mobile workload in VS missing MSVC build tools component needed to publish .NET MAUI apps on Windows

[vsfeedback]

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The "Mobile development with .NET" workload for .NET MAUI apps doesn't include the MSVC build tools, which apparently are needed to publish .NET MAUI apps on Windows.

Repro steps:

• Install VS2022 17.2 Preview 1 with just the "Mobile development with .NET" workload
• Create a new .NET MAUI app
• Create a test certificate for package signing: https://docs.microsoft.com/windows/msix/package/create-certificate-package-signing
• Publish the app: msbuild /restore /t:Publish /p:TargetFramework=net6.0-windows10.0.19041 /p:configuration=release /p:GenerateAppxPackageOnBuild=true /p:AppxPackageSigningEnabled=true /p:PackageCertificateThumbprint="<certificate thumbrint>" /p:PackageCertificatePassword="<certificate password>"

Expected result: App publishes cleanly
Actual result: An error stating that FastLink symbols couldn't be converted to PDBs because the mspdbcmf.exe tool wasn't found.

Build FAILED.

"C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\source\repos\MauiApp1\MauiApp1\MauiApp1.csproj" (Publish target) (1:19) ->
(_GenerateAppxSymbolPackage target) ->
  C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk\1.0.0\build\Microsoft.Build.Msix.Packaging.targets(341,5): warning : Failed to convert FastLink symbols to full PDBs for 'C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\source\rep
os\MauiApp1\MauiApp1\obj\release\net6.0-windows10.0.19041\win10-x64\MauiApp1.pdb' due to failure to find the tool 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Preview\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.32.31114\bin\HostX64\x64\mspdbcmf.exe'. [C:\
Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\source\repos\MauiApp1\MauiApp1\MauiApp1.csproj]

"C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\source\repos\MauiApp1\MauiApp1\MauiApp1.csproj" (Publish target) (1:19) ->
(_GenerateAppxSymbolPackage target) ->
  C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk\1.0.0\build\Microsoft.Build.Msix.Packaging.targets(341,5): error MSB6011: Invalid parameters passed to the Microsoft.Build.Msix.Symbols.WinAppSdkCheckFastlinkPd
b task. [C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount\source\repos\MauiApp1\MauiApp1\MauiApp1.csproj]

Workaround: Install the MSVC build tools component using the VS installer

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Original Comments

Feedback Bot on 3/3/2022, 02:17 AM:

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Original Solutions

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[jfversluis]

Thanks for the report! As mentioned in #4329 we're aware and a fix should be close. Closing this one to not duplicate efforts here, thank you!