Installation

Developing native, cross-platform .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) apps requires Visual Studio 2022 17.8 or greater, or the latest Visual Studio Code with the .NET MAUI extension.

To start developing native, cross-platform .NET MAUI apps on Windows, install Visual Studio 2022 17.8 or greater by following the installation steps.

Prerequisites

  • Visual Studio 2022 17.8 or greater. For information about supported operating systems, hardware, supported languages, and additional requirements and guidance, see Visual Studio 2022 System Requirements.

To build, sign, and deploy .NET MAUI apps for iOS, you'll also need:

Alternatively, to deploy debug builds of your app directly from Windows to your iOS device with hot restart, you'll need:

Installation

  1. To create .NET MAUI apps, you'll need the latest version of Visual Studio 2022:

  2. Either install Visual Studio, or modify your existing installation, and install the .NET Multi-platform App UI development workload with its default optional installation options:

    Visual Studio workloads for .NET MAUI.

Next steps

To learn how to create and run your first .NET MAUI app in Visual Studio 2022 on Windows, or Visual Studio Code, click the button below.