MAUI Project Builds Successfully but Fails to Launch on Emulator or Physical Device in Visual Studio

Question

I’m encountering an issue where my .NET MAUI project builds successfully in Visual Studio, but the app does not launch on either the Android emulator or a physical device. When clicking Run, the Output window shows messages such as:

“Done Building Project”

“Deploy Started”

However, the deployment never progresses beyond this point—no app launches, and no error messages appear in the Output window.

Here is a screenshot of the behavior: This problem started after I installed older versions of Visual Studio (2017 and 2019) for a separate task, and then reinstalled the latest version of Visual Studio. Since then, deployment for MAUI projects has stopped working.

I’ve already tried cleaning, rebuilding, restarting Visual Studio, repair, uninstall and reinstall VS and rebooting my machine, but the issue persists.

Has anyone faced this issue before? How can I fix Visual Studio so that MAUI apps launch properly again?