Visual Studio 2026 update broke autobuild of my project during debug
14:48 23 Apr 2026

After the latest update to Visual Studio 2026, my .NET 9 Maui project has stopped automatically building whenever I click the "Run" option while in debug mode. It also applies to when I clean the Bin and Obj folders, which do not get rebuilt, until I manually click build.

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I have no idea where to even look to find why it no longer auto-rebuilds whenever I run the project after some code changes.

I've looked in Options > Project & Solution, and the only things I've found, I didn't need to change as they were already on.

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I've also tried to do CLI workload fixes as suggested as possible solutions, but neither dotnet workload repair or dotnet workload install maui had any effect

I have no idea what happened, what changed, or how to fix it.

Just all of a sudden, each time I make a change in the code, I have to manually click "Rebuild" otherwise, there is no effect if I just run the project again.

It is rather frustrating.

.net-9.0 visual-studio-2026