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dotMorten opened this issue May 19, 2025 · 0 comments
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Build failure when referencing WinUI and AI packages #5439

dotMorten opened this issue May 19, 2025 · 0 comments
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dotMorten commented May 19, 2025

Describe the bug

Referencing the WinUI and AI packages only, causes a build error;

Found multiple publish output files with the same relative path: 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\metadata\Microsoft.Graphics.Imaging.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\runtimes-framework\win-arm64\native\Microsoft.Graphics.Imaging.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\metadata\Microsoft.Windows.AI.ContentSafety.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\runtimes-framework\win-arm64\native\Microsoft.Windows.AI.ContentSafety.winmd,
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\metadata\Microsoft.Windows.AI.Foundation.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\runtimes-framework\win-arm64\native\Microsoft.Windows.AI.Foundation.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\metadata\Microsoft.Windows.AI.Imaging.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\runtimes-framework\win-arm64\native\Microsoft.Windows.AI.Imaging.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\metadata\Microsoft.Windows.AI.Text.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\runtimes-framework\win-arm64\native\Microsoft.Windows.AI.Text.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\metadata\Microsoft.Windows.AI.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\runtimes-framework\win-arm64\native\Microsoft.Windows.AI.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\metadata\Microsoft.Windows.SemanticSearch.winmd,
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\runtimes-framework\win-arm64\native\Microsoft.Windows.SemanticSearch.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\metadata\Microsoft.Windows.Vision.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\runtimes-framework\win-arm64\native\Microsoft.Windows.Vision.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\metadata\Microsoft.Windows.Workloads.winmd, 
E:\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk.ai\1.8.135-experimental\runtimes-framework\win-arm64\native\Microsoft.Windows.Workloads.winmd.

Steps to reproduce the bug

  1. Create a blank WinUI Package app
  2. Rreplace the WinAppSDK metapackage with these two packages:
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK.WinUI" Version="1.8.250507002-experimental" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK.AI" Version="1.8.135-experimental" />
  1. Compile and observe the build error

Expected behavior

No build error.

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NuGet package version

Windows App SDK 1.8 Experimental 2: 1.8.250515001-experimental2

Packaging type

Packaged (MSIX)

Windows version

Windows 11 version 24H2 (22621, October 2024 Update)

IDE

Visual Studio 2022

Additional context

If you also add the <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.WindowsAppSDK.Packages" Version="1.8.250515001-experimental2" /> package, the issue resolves itself.

@RDMacLachlan RDMacLachlan added area-DeveloperTools Issues related to authoring (source and IDL), debugging, HotReload, LiveVisualTree, VS integration area-WCR labels Jun 2, 2025
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