MAUI for iOS Publish in Visual Studio 2022 for Windows in Parallax VM

Question

I have a Mac. I have a Parallels Windows 11 VM with Visual Studio 2022 installed with the dotnet SDK and MAUI workloads.

My source code is on the Mac and shared as a drive in the VM so I can open the exact same project on either the Mac using VSCode or the Windows VM using Visual Studio for Windows 2022.

I have connected the VM to my host Mac and am able to build and debug the app on actual iOS devices.

When I try to publish the app it builds and creates an ipa and a couple other artifacts in a folder.

I then try to distribute it to the Apple app store and get an error.

I tried using transporter to upload the IPA and it says the app is not signed.

So I did the dotnet publish -f net8.0-ios -c Release command on a command line in the folder of the project and get an error:

error : Code signing must be enabled to create an Xcode archive.

In Visual Studio I went to the project settings and have it set to auto. I also went through the manage accounts and made sure that was all set up and pointing to the right account. I also downloaded all profiles. I also saw the particular distribution profile in the list of profiles that should have been downloaded.

I am able to run this same command on my Mac in the same folder and it works...so same source code CLI on Mac works and signs properly, CLI on Windows has the signing error.

Answer 1

Hello,

I have connected the VM to my host Mac and am able to build and debug the app on actual iOS devices.

From this, I know the Windows machine has paired to the Mac and it works on debug mode.

I did the dotnet publish -f net8.0-ios -c Release command on a command line in the folder of the project and get an error:

This dotnet publish -f net8.0-ios -c Release command is missing the codesign parameters.

For example, you could use the following command:

(Take care to find your own sign identity and provisioning profile)

dotnet publish -f net8.0-ios -c Release -p:ArchiveOnBuild=true -p:CodesignKey="Apple Distribution:XXX" -p:CodesignProvision="MyMauiApp"

For more details, please refer to Publish a .NET MAUI iOS app using the command line - .NET MAUI | Microsoft Learn

Besides, there is another way to publish the app, you could archive the project with Visual Studio 2022 directly. See Publish a .NET MAUI iOS app for App Store distribution - .NET MAUI | Microsoft Learn

Best Regards,

Wenyan Zhang

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