Cannot Start Maui Tutorial on Windows

Ok so this is really weird

So Env: - Visual Studio 17.8.3
Dotnet SDKS: 8.0.100
All workloads up to date

I download the whole Git repo - I then open the DotNet MAUI tutorial project maui-samples\8.0\Tutorials\CreateNetMauiApp - Step 1

Build for windows - I get the following exception


If I try it from a command line

```
Unhandled exception. System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for '' threw an exception.
---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'WinRT.ActivationFactory`1' threw an exception.
---> System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Class not registered (0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG))
at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHR(Int32 errorCode)
at WinRT.BaseActivationFactory..ctor(String typeNamespace, String typeFullName)
at WinRT.ActivationFactory`1..ctor()
at WinRT.ActivationFactory`1..cctor()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at WinRT.ActivationFactory`1.ActivateInstance[I]()
at Microsoft.Windows.ApplicationModel.WindowsAppRuntime.DeploymentInitializeOptions..ctor()
at Microsoft.Windows.ApplicationModel.WindowsAppRuntime.DeploymentManagerCS.AutoInitialize.get_Options() in C:\Users\saa\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk\1.3.230724000\include\DeploymentManagerAutoInitializer.cs:line 44
at Microsoft.Windows.ApplicationModel.WindowsAppRuntime.DeploymentManagerCS.AutoInitialize.AccessWindowsAppSDK() in C:\Users\saa\.nuget\packages\microsoft.windowsappsdk\1.3.230724000\include\DeploymentManagerAutoInitializer.cs:line 30
at .cctor()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
```

However - if I create a brand new MAUI project in VS and attempt to run it on Windows - it works just fine.....

Any ideas of what to look for?