MAUI Blazor Windows App does not work with Native AOT

[strich]

Describe the bug

This is a cross-post bug from the MAUI project (https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/17713) at the request of their developers.

I am currently developing an app with Avalonia on .NET 7 and I was curious to see if I could move to MAUI Blazor as it'd improve my productivity. I do not plan to release the app on anything but desktop platforms, and even then I may keep it to Windows.

It is important to me to have Native AOT. I got this working with Avalonia by adding the following to my csproj:

<SelfContained>false</SelfContained>
<PublishSingleFile>false</PublishSingleFile>
<PublishReadyToRun>false</PublishReadyToRun>
<TrimMode>partial</TrimMode>
<PublishAot>true</PublishAot>
<OptimizationPreference>Speed</OptimizationPreference>
<EnableTrimAnalyzer>true</EnableTrimAnalyzer>

I installed the latest MAUI and created the default MAUI Blazor project in VS. I've attempted to apply the same or similar csproj settings, starting with just <PublishAot> and each step of the way the commandline publish has spit out errors. I cannot currently get it to work.

How can I get the default start up project to publish to native AOT?

Steps to reproduce the bug

Create a new .NET Blazor MAUI App in VS.
Remove all platforms from the csproj except Windows to simply things.
Try to get it to compile to AOT.

Expected behavior

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Screenshots

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NuGet package version

None

Packaging type

Unpackaged

Windows version

Windows 11 version 22H2 (22621, 2022 Update)

IDE

Visual Studio 2022-preview, Visual Studio 2022

Additional context

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[DarranRowe]

IIRC, the biggest thing getting in the way of the Windows App SDK being usable for Native AOT is Cs/WinRT. The .NET projections are created using Cs/WinRT. What's more, since you mentioned .NET 7, the documentation states that Native AOT is targeted at console type applications in .NET 7. I would suspect that Native AOT will not be fully supported until .NET 8 is released and Cs/WinRT declares full compatibility.

[manodasanW]

You can find my recent update on AOT status here: https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK/discussions/3856#discussioncomment-7017551

[strich]

IIRC, the biggest thing getting in the way of the Windows App SDK being usable for Native AOT is Cs/WinRT. The .NET projections are created using Cs/WinRT. What's more, since you mentioned .NET 7, the documentation states that Native AOT is targeted at console type applications in .NET 7. I would suspect that Native AOT will not be fully supported until .NET 8 is released and Cs/WinRT declares full compatibility.

Note that whilst I initially tried it on net 7 i since moved to NET 8 RC1 and had the same issue.