I am new to MAUI (who aren't?). Built the template app which works fine when launched by F5 from VS2022 (17.2.0 Preview 3.0 with MAUI 6.0.300-rc.1).
How to launch from explorer like any other .exe? (I don't find much on web yet, related to publishing such an app)
I am not new to .NET MAUI! We're currently working through bugs to make the publishing scenarios work for Windows.
You can find my write-up so far here but that mostly writes about creating an MSIX, which is what you need for the store, but you can also side-load. The "unpackaged" scenario as this is called has some things we need to work out before GA.