Update the comment for the test properties (#27306)

mattleibow · rmarinho · Copilot · PureWeen · commit 70b69326cdb5 · 2025-06-19T18:41:35.000Z
* Update the comment for the test properties

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Copilot &lt;175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com&gt;

* Update src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/BaseBuildTest.cs

Co-authored-by: Rui Marinho &lt;me@ruimarinho.net&gt;

* Update src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/BaseBuildTest.cs

* Update BaseBuildTest.cs

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Co-authored-by: Rui Marinho &lt;me@ruimarinho.net&gt;
Co-authored-by: Copilot &lt;175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: Shane Neuville &lt;shneuvil@microsoft.com&gt;
diff --git a/src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/BaseBuildTest.cs b/src/TestUtils/src/Microsoft.Maui.IntegrationTests/BaseBuildTest.cs
@@ -13,8 +13,21 @@ public abstract class BaseBuildTest
 		public const string DotNetCurrent = "net9.0";
 		public const string DotNetPrevious = "net8.0";
 
-		public const string MauiVersionCurrent = "9.0.0-rc.1.24453.9"; // this should not be the same as the last release
-		public const string MauiVersionPrevious = "8.0.72"; // this should not be the same version as the default. aka: MicrosoftMauiPreviousDotNetReleasedVersion in eng/Versions.props
+		// Versions of .NET MAUI that are used when testing the <MauiVersion> property. These should preferrably
+		// different to the defaults in the SDKs such that the tests can test what would happen if the user puts
+		// some arbitrary number in <MauiVersion>. The actual numbers do not matter as much, as long as they trigger
+		// the MSBuild targets that would download some version that is only on nuget.org and not in the workload.
+		//
+		// MauiVersionCurrent: this should be the current .NET version of MAUI, but the latest released build.
+		// For example, if this branch is for .NET 9, then this must be a 9.0.x number. If the latest MAUI release
+		// is 9.0.100, then this should preferrable be some older build to make sure things work, like 9.0.30.
+		public const string MauiVersionCurrent = "9.0.14";
+		// MauiVersionPrevious: this should be the previous .NET version of MAUI.
+		// For example, if this branch is for .NET 9, then this must be a 8.0.x number, but should preferrably
+		// not be the same as the default in MicrosoftMauiPreviousDotNetReleasedVersion in eng/Versions.props
+		// as this would result in the tests not testing anything. If the .NET 9 version of MAUI pulls in 8.0.100
+		// of the .NET 8 MAUI, then this should be 8.0.80 for example.
+		public const string MauiVersionPrevious = "8.0.93";
 
 		char[] invalidChars = { '{', '}', '(', ')', '$', ':', ';', '\"', '\'', ',', '=', '.', '-', ' ', };
 
