Command to install xcsync fails as tool is still in preview

[Bowman74]

Type of issue

Code doesn't work

Description

The article states to install the tool globally to use this command:

dotnet tool install -g dotnet-xcsync

However, that command will not work as the nuget package is in preview. The command will fail with:
dotnet-xcsync is not found in NuGet feeds https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json.

Both this documentation and the documentation at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/whats-new/dotnet-9?view=net-maui-9.0 indicate this tool was released with .Net 9 but it does not appear this was the case. It is still in preview and the tool cannot be downloaded as a released tool.

The nuget package can be found here in preview and contains the command that can be used to download the preview package:
https://www.nuget.org/packages/dotnet-xcsync/0.1.0-preview.24509.2

The documentation in both places should be updated with the fact that this is in preview and with information on the correct way to download the preview.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/macios/xcsync?view=net-maui-9.0&tabs=visual-studio-code

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/docs-maui/blob/main/docs/macios/xcsync.md

Document Version Independent Id

d5f511c6-2870-5ca6-400e-afa302e40146

Article author

@haritha-mohan

Metadata

• ID: d5f511c6-2870-5ca6-400e-afa302e40146
• Service: dotnet-mobile
• Sub-service: dotnet-maui

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[davidbritch]

@Bowman74 Agreed that you're correct, and thanks for pointing this out.

[Bowman74]

@davidbritch Thank you sir!