iOS - Use a different Info.plist and specify App Version numbers when doing a dotnet publish

[Chris-Marassovich]

I have a maui app I have ported from XF.
It's been ported to a single project file.

My env is dotnet workload 9.0.302.
I am building on Azure Pipeline using a vmImage: 'macOS-15'.

I have two different Info.plist files ... I have one called ReleaseRed.plist and another called ReleaseBlue.plist. Mostly just Bundle Identifier differences and App Icon differences.

I have found two different references on how to do this, and they make a lot of sense except they do not work for me at all.
I know they are not working because during the publish to the App Store I get errors about incorrect values which I know are set in the Info.plist which is quite different to what I have in the ReleaseRed.plist and ReleaseBlue.plist.

How do I get the build system to use specific Info.plist files?

In my csproj I have tried
Style 1

 <ItemGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(TargetFramework)'=='ReleaseBlue|net9.0-ios'">
   <PartialAppManifest Include="Platforms\iOS\Info.ReleaseBlue.plist" />
 </ItemGroup>
 
 <ItemGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(TargetFramework)'=='ReleaseRed|net9.0-ios'">
   <PartialAppManifest Include="Platforms\iOS\Info.ReleaseRed.plist" />
 </ItemGroup>

Style 2

<ItemGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(TargetFramework)'=='ReleaseBlue|net9.0-ios'">
    <None Remove="Platforms\iOS\Info.plist" />
    <None Include="Platforms\iOS\Info.ReleaseBlue.plist">
      <LogicalName>Info.plist</LogicalName>
    </None>
  </ItemGroup>
  
  <ItemGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(TargetFramework)'=='ReleaseRed|net9.0-ios'">
    <None Remove="Platforms\iOS\Info.plist" />
    <None Include="Platforms\iOS\Info.ReleaseRed.plist">
      <LogicalName>Info.plist</LogicalName>
    </None>
  </ItemGroup>

Can anyone suggest how best to achieve this?

Also during my dotnet publish I am passing in the ApplicationDisplayVersion and ApplicationVersion as per the doco ...
but these are not being used as I can see in my error logs publishing to the App Store that its taking the values from the Info.plist.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to pass along version details during the Azure Pipeline build?

      - task: DotNetCoreCLI@2
        displayName: 'dotnet publish iOS'
        inputs:
          command: 'publish'
          publishWebProjects: false
          projects: '**/######.sln'
          arguments: '-f:net9.0-ios -c:$(solutionConfiguration) /p:Platform="Any CPU" -r:ios-arm64 --no-restore -p:ArchiveOnBuild=true -p:CodesignKey="$(APPLE_CERTIFICATE_SIGNING_IDENTITY)" -p:CodesignProvision="$(APPLE_PROV_PROFILE_UUID)"  /p:ApplicationDisplayVersion=$(version.MajorMinorServicePack) /p:ApplicationVersion=$(version.Revision)'
          zipAfterPublish: false
          modifyOutputPath: false

Regards
Chris ....