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I have Visual Studio v 17.7.4 and Visual Studio Preview v 17.8.0 and have recently installed the MAUI suite. 
I am not given the option to create multi-platform apps as I assume I would on VS or VSP. I have gone through previous iterations of the question where general consensus was that MAUI would only be available in 2022, or that to use MAUI would have to go through VSP (both seem to be outdated).
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Firstly, close your VS, open command prompt, using this command: dotnet new install Microsoft.Maui.Templates. You will need to restart Visual Studio for that. Could this command make them show up in Visual Studio? If not, please execute dotnet workload update and share errors when you execute these commands.
I just tried running the command
dotnet new --install Microsoft.Maui.Templates
and
dotnet new install Microsoft.Maui.Templates
both return this message.
I have since tried to re-download the dotnet sdk and tried to install, and later repair it. The results were the same as in my previous screenshot.
I then tried to download the binaries to replace my downloads and now I am stuck on this message.
Which .NET version that you installed? Please open this C:\Program Files\dotnet\sdk path, check if have the version.
If you have .NET version, open your PC's Environment variables, check the system variables, find the Path key, if have C:\Program Files\dotnet value, if not, please add it and restart your PC.
The latest version I have is 8.0.1 in the ...Program Files\dotnet\sdk folder. There seems to be an alternate folder location: ...Program Files(x86)\dotnet\sdk, with an earlier version of the sdk. Is this the issue?
How do I resolve this?
I also went ahead and added the path to the system variables. I am still not able to invoke dotnet from CLI though.
I am given the option to create a MAUI project now from VS.
The latest version I have is 8.0.1 in the ...Program Files\dotnet\sdk folder. There seems to be an alternate folder location: ...Program Files(x86)\dotnet\sdk, with an earlier version of the sdk. Is this the issue?
Yes, I find a similar issue:The library hostfxr.dll was found, but loading it from hostfxr.dll failed, it will errors if dotnet run -a x86 in dotnet runtime 64 bit.
Thank you for the "heads up". Just to clarify, would the solution be to remove the x86 directory altogether? There does not seem to be a solution in the link you provided.
would the solution be to remove the x86 directory altogether?
Do you have some projects referred these x86 sdks? If so, you cannot remove it directly, please update them before you remove x86 sdks.
This is/will be my first project and I am not sure how the response applies to me. I do not want to make any assumptions, so I have left everything intact. Please see the screenshot for errors I receive upon starting a new project and advise.
Based on your screenshot, your project is based on the .NET 6, but you used .NET 7.
Can you share your csproj file?
Do you set following TargetFrameworks for windows? If so, please change .net 7.0 to 6.0, Or create a new project to based on .Net 7.
<TargetFrameworks Condition="$([MSBuild]::IsOSPlatform('windows'))">$(TargetFrameworks);net7.0-windows10.0.19041.0</TargetFrameworks>
Did you set global.json? If you want to use latest .net version, please remove it.
csproj is shown below for the project based on .NET 6 before I made a change.
and after
I also created a new project based on .NET 7, see csproj below.
And the response I get trying to set up a global.json file.
Is there any feedback on this possibly?
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I'm on Windows 11 x64 and VS 2022.I had exactly the same issue of missing MAUI APP project type.
First I had to rename (or you can delete it) the folder
C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet to C:\Program Files (x86)\_dotnet
as it was causing a conflict. Also I added C:\Program Files\dotnet to my PATH environment variables, restarted the PC, then I was successfully execute the below command to install the MAUI templates.
dotnet new -i Microsoft.Maui.Templates
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I'm on same issue of missing MAUI APP project type. I go to rename C:\Program Files (x86)\dotnet to C:\Program Files (x86)\_dotnet. Then I added C:\Program Files\dotnet and restarted the PC, The Maui template was found in VS
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This does not work since it installs very old MAUI templates targeting .NET 6. Please update the templates that can be installed to the latest.
A complete uninstall of Visual Studio and .NET and then reinstall fixes the isssue. Ugh! This needs a better fix since this was hours wasted.
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dotnet new --install Microsoft.Maui.Templates
This worked for me.
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This worked for me.
Appreciate the support