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What’s New in the All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack v9.0 – Hello Avalonia

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Mar 25, 2026

In line with the annual release cadence, the first public preview of .NET 11, an STS version, was released last month.

The second preview was released this month. It was then followed by the much-awaited preview release of the Avalonia backend for .NET MAUI, which is now available.

Simply put, .NET MAUI renders native controls from the underlying platform. Avalonia uses Skia to draw its controls across different platforms. This allows Avalonia to offer a similar look and feel everywhere.

With Avalonia, you can use the same .NET MAUI codebase to target even more platforms, including Linux and WebAssembly.

Basically, Avalonia offers a set of .NET MAUI Handlers designed to render Skia (Drawn) controls for .NET MAUI views.

Avalonia has announced plans to align its GA with the release of .NET MAUI 11 stable later this year.

Excited to share that preview support for both is now built into the All-in-One templates pack.

As the name suggests, it has a slew of features under the hood to work with .NET MAUI. To know more about all the features of this template pack, refer to the series of articles listed here.

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What’s New in the All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack v8.0

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Nov 28, 2025
1 Comment on What’s New in the All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack v8.0

As the name suggests, it has a slew of features under the hood to work with .NET MAUI.

To effectively support the Stable channel release of .NET MAUI 10, both the CLI NuGet package and the Visual Studio extension of the All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack have been updated.

This v8.0 is the key enhancement for .NET MAUI 10. Check out the articles for v7.9, v7.10, and v7.11 for the feature set.

To know more about all the features of this template pack, refer to the series of articles listed here.

And to learn about key features by MAUI version, check these articles:

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What’s New in the All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack v7.11

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Nov 5, 2025
3 Comments on What’s New in the All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack v7.11

As the name suggests, has a slew of features under the hood to work with .NET MAUI.

To effectively support the RC release (with Go-Live support) of .NET MAUI 10, both the CLI NuGet package and the Visual Studio extension of the All-in-One .NET MAUI Templates Pack have been updated.

This is the third set of enhancements for .NET MAUI 10. Check out the v7.9 and v7.10 articles for the feature set.

To know more about all the features of this template pack, refer to the series of articles listed here.

And to learn about key features by MAUI version, check these articles:

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Integrating .NET MAUI with Aspire: A Comprehensive Guide

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Oct 29, 2025
2 Comments on Integrating .NET MAUI with Aspire: A Comprehensive Guide

Aspire is now the talk of the town. You can build and orchestrate all the dependencies from one single place. In fact, it’s stack streamlined. Learn more about Aspire here.

This article discusses how to integrate .NET MAUI, Microsoft’s cross-platform UI framework, with Aspire.

Aspire supports .NET by default, but since .NET MAUI is designed for multi-targeting from a single project, it presents a minor issue. I’ll offer a workaround until it’s officially supported (coming soon).

For this, I’m using .NET 10 File-based Apps for simplicity. Aspire v9.5 supports this new feature. Consult this article to know more about C# File-apps.

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Using C# Ignored Directives: A Guide for Programmers

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date May 26, 2025
1 Comment on Using C# Ignored Directives: A Guide for Programmers

.NET 10 File-based Apps and C# Ignored Directives

C# – Preprocessor Directives are highly useful for writing code that can be compiled conditionally, depending on factors like the target framework, target platform, or build configuration.

For example:

#if NET9_0_OR_GREATER
// The code within this block will execute only on .NET 9 or higher
#endif

#if ANDROID
// The code within this block will execute only on the Android OS
#endif

#if DEBUG
// The code within this block will execute only in Debug mode
#endif

C# – Ignored Directives have a similar syntax but are ignored by the compiler because they are for tooling.

The real purpose of this feature is to execute a C# source file directly from the CLI. It doesn’t need a project file. Now, even the plain console app requires a project file, despite the much-simplified top-level statements feature.

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