Documentation should be IDE agnostic

[jamescrosswell]

Type of issue

Typo

Description

Since these are the docs for MAUI and lots of MAUI developers are working on macOS, where Visual Studio is unavailable, ideally the docs would be informative to developers using other IDEs. Under the hood, I'm guessing Visual Studio is just setting a property in the csproj file, so why not document that property and the various settings for it here instead of providing documentation which is specific to Visual Studio (and only useful to a subset of MAUI developers)?

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/android/linking?view=net-maui-8.0

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/docs-maui/blob/main/docs/android/linking.md

Document Version Independent Id

08370e7e-ea8a-c0c3-5d48-74049f2cf2bb

Article author

@davidbritch

Metadata

• ID: 08370e7e-ea8a-c0c3-5d48-74049f2cf2bb
• Service: dotnet-mobile
• Sub-service: dotnet-maui

Related Issues

[davidbritch]

Hi @jamescrosswell

In .NET 9, linking has been replaced with trimming (or rather using ILLink is now referred to as trimming rather than linking). Therefore the linking doc is for .NET 8 users, with the trimming doc for .NET 9 users. Because .NET MAUI in .NET 8 goes out of support in May there are no plans for update the linking doc.