Visual Studio MSBuild process freezes after update to v.3

[kofanov]

Hello!

After two days spent searching and solving the problem, I decided to share the solution with you.

The other day, I updated the Plugin version.Firebase.Cloud Messaging to 3.1.1. At that time, I was making improvements on the .NET MAUI project in VS Code on Mac. But when I forgot about it and returned to Visual Studio on Windows, I found that the application was not randomly built. I found that the studio runs a lot of MSBuild processes and they just hang. Stopping one of the processes starts a further build, which does not always end successfully. Since my solution consists of more than 130 projects, it was extremely difficult to detect the problem. As a result, it turned out that the whole problem was updating this plugin.

[sportmoltas]

Same experience when upgrading it to v3. It never finish building my Maui project. It is the same when I trying to build on the commandline.

[AdamEssenmacher]

A minimum repro project might help.

Also take a look at
https://github.com/AdamEssenmacher/GoogleApisForiOSComponents?tab=readme-ov-file#the-build-is-hanging
and
https://github.com/AdamEssenmacher/GoogleApisForiOSComponents?tab=readme-ov-file#7-zip-issues

[Grzesik]

I have the same problem.

1. In Windows / Visual Studio, when I create a demo project, I can debug it on iOS. It is enough to add the Plugin.FirebasePushNotifications ( my actual version is 3.0.28)to the project and I can't debug it on iOS any more. The app can't be build.
2. On Mac / Rider I can debug the app, even with the Nuget, but I can't create a Release version to test the app.
3. It works, when I create the app in DevOps/Pipeline and push it to TestFlight

[AdamEssenmacher]

@Grzesik Plugin.FirebasePushNotifications is a completely different project. You might be in the wrong place.

[Grzesik]

@AdamEssenmacher
Sorry, I mean I have the problems with Plugin.Firebase.CloudMessaging version "3.1.1.

When I create an demo project and add the Nuget

it works fine. Maybe it could help you to solve the problem

[AdamEssenmacher]

Windows/Visual Studio is known to hang sometimes when using XamarinBuildDownload: dotnet/android-libraries#1047

As discussed in the issue, you can work around it by manually extracting needed files into your XamarinBuildDownload cache.