How to use NET MAUI releases with different NET versions

mrw 201 Reputation points
2023-03-26T14:31:48.4366667+00:00

I am working on small tool using NET MAUI, but I am struggling to understand Microsoft's way of working on NET versions. While working on my tool, I have came up with certain bugs and reported them to Microsoft. Now they have fixed them. However I am using currently available NET7 and my reported bugs seems to be fixed in 8.0.0-preview.1.7762 Pre-release

https://github.com/dotnet/maui/releases

According to my understanding release 8.0.0-preview.1.7762 Pre-release is for NET8 Preview and not for NET7? So what should I do? Wait until November 2023 to get my bugs fixed or use NET Preview version with possibly many other bugs? Or is there some other way to get all working somehow?

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  1. Bruce (SqlWork.com) 56,846 Reputation points
    2023-03-26T15:58:12.6533333+00:00

    You are correct. Maui is tied to the net version.

    Only you can decide if the bug fixes are worth the risk of developing on preview code. If you go with the preview, there are typically monthly updates and occasional point releases which may have breaking changes. Also .net 8 has not released a go live version yet.

    this a common disadvantage of using early releases of new framework like Maui.

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