[Enhancement] <UseMauiBuild>

[SteveBush]

Summary

Separate out the MSBuild infrastructure for MAUI from from including the package dependencies. Included in the is the ability to have a Platforms directory where Android, IOS, MacCatalyst and Windows subdirectories are automatically included or excluded based on <net6.0-platform>. This build capability is extremely helpful in building non-MAUI dependent platform libraries. For example, I have a networking project that supports Android, IOS, MacCatalyst, Windows, Linux and MacOS. The project includes both platform specific and shared implementations of networking APIs.

Also, having the ability to use the build system to build non-MAUI projects on Linux cloud pipeline hosts.

API Changes

Move the MAUI build project code into a separate package and true to include the MAUI build tools separate from the MAUI platform dependencies.

Intended Use Case

To use the MAUI build system for projects that include platform dependencies but don’t require the MAUI dependencies. This would also enable the building of projects on Linux as it would not require the MAUI workload to be installed.

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