Getting error in Visual Studio in bin Bin folder "appxrecipe" is missing or malformed

Question

I had created a new Maui project and ran the project on windows. It's giving me an error

Severity    Code    Description Project File    Line    Suppression State
Error       DEP1600: The list of content files in the recipe file "xxxx.appxrecipe" is missing or malformed.

I am using Visual Studio Community 2022 Preview 17.2.0 Preview 3.0

I deleted the Bin and obj folders and clean the solution and ran it again this not working either. I repaired the Visual studio and ran it again. I am not sure what is wrong.

Answer 1

Though an old question, perhaps an answer will still be relevant to others.

I had this issue from developing a MAUI app of which I wanted to use without the MsixPackage. I just wanted to be able to launch the exe directly from directory without installing. So I did the needed configurations in the csproj file but forgot to update the launchSettings.json file found in Properties. I modified that and changed the CommandName from MsixProject to Project and voila!

This makes sense because if you are using MsixPackage then the build.appxrecipe will be needed to build the installer.

Hope this helps the next person.