Category: Deep Dive

Blazor – All along the way – Hybrid Apps

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date May 27, 2022
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This is the fourth article in the .NET MAUI – Blazor series and have provided links for the other 3 articles previously published.

This article primarily focuses on the Blazor Hybrid scenarios.

The reason is the potential of Blazor, the modern web UI stack based on Razor SDK and allows to work with C# language constructs which can be used across multiple frameworks with the introduction of BlazorWebView, now officially supported on .NET MAUI, classic Windows desktop application frameworks such as Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF.

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Introducing Shared Class Library – Multi-target Xamarin.Forms and .NET MAUI from a single project

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date May 25, 2022

Very happy to announce the availability of the Shared Class Library project template, a library that targets both Xamarin.Forms and .NET MAUI from one single project.

We all know that .NET MAUI is an evolution of Xamarin.Forms targeting .NET 6 (as of this writing), a cross-platform UI stack (native UI) targeting the Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows platforms to complement the .NET toolchain (SDK & Workloads), and a single base class library (BCL).

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MVVM – Made Easy with Microsoft MVVM Toolkit – Part 2

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date May 9, 2022
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This article is the second part of this MVVM – Made Easy series. The first part of this article, covering the basics, is linked here.

As seen in the first part, INotifyPropertyChanged (INPC) is the interface that defines the event which raises the notification whenever the value of the property gets changed.

Tags .NET MAUI, Android, Automation, Avalonia, C#, CommunityToolkit, Cross Platform, CSharp, Desktop, Developer Tools, iOS, iPadOS, Mac Catalyst, macOS, MAUI, Mobile, MVVM, Productivity, Roslyn, Source Generator, Toolkit, Uno, UWP, Windows, Windows AppSDK, WinUI, WinUI 3, WinUI3, WPF, Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, XAML

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What’s New in .NET MAUI RC2

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date May 2, 2022
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Yes, another RC in such a short span of two weeks’ time. A more polished version and most importantly Samsung Tizen joins the .NET MAUI bandwagon. And it seems one more RC to follow before the GA release later this month.

Tags .NET MAUI, Android, Apple, Blazor, Blazor Hybrid, Comet, Desktop, Hybrid, iOS, iPadOS, Mac Catalyst, macOS, MAUI, Mobile, RC2, Samsung, Tizen, UWP, Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio Code, VS Code, Windows, WinUI, WinUI 3, WinUI3, Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms

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MVVM – Made Easy with Microsoft MVVM Toolkit – Part 1

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Apr 22, 2022
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The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) is a software design pattern that is structured to separate program (business) logic and user interface controls. The main advantage is, that the program logic is fully unit-testable as it functions independently of the UI controls (loosely coupled). It is very popular among the developers of XAML-based UI frameworks such as WPF, UWP, Xamarin.Forms, .NET MAUI, WinUI, and even other 3rd Party frameworks such as Uno.

Tags .NET MAUI, Android, C#, CSharp, Desktop, iOS, iPadOS, Mac Catalyst, macOS, Mobile, MVVM, Toolkit, Uno, UWP, Windows, WinUI, WinUI 3, WinUI3, WPF, Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms, XAML

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.NET MAUI – RC1 – BlazorWebView – Streamlined

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Apr 13, 2022
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Yesterday, Apr 12, 2022, the first Release Candidate (RC) version of .NET MAUI got released with the freeze in API design surface before General Availability (GA) in May later this year. After multiple preview releases in the past 13 months, in fact, it all started with .NET 6 Preview 2 on Mar 11, 2021, and now reached the RC stage where it can be deployed to Production and backed by an official go-live support policy.

Visual Studio 17.2.0 Preview 3.0 was also released with an updated Mobile Workload to support the same.

Tags .NET MAUI, Android, Blazor, Blazor Hybrid, BlazorWebView, Cross-Platform, Desktop, Developer Tools, How To, Hybrid, iOS, Mac Catalyst, macOS, MAUI, Mobile, RC1, Web, Windows, WinUI, WinUI 3, Xamarin

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.NET MAUI – Blazor – Interop

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Nov 16, 2021
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This is Part 2 in the multi-part series of .NET MAUI – Blazor articles.

In Part 1, we’ve seen an introduction on how to make use of BlazorWebView in the .NET MAUI app.

Part 3 of this series is on the streamlined process of registering the dependencies for BlazorWebView from .NET MAUI RC1 release.

Since it is implemented as a View, it’s possible to share data between .NET MAUI and Blazor and that’s the takeaway of this article. Along with that, the core logic is now abstracted as Razor Class Library (RCL), Dependency Injection, and Component routing for Navigation.

Tags .NET MAUI, Android, AspNetCore, Blazor, Blazor Hybrid, BlazorWebView, Cross Platform, Deep Dive, Desktop, Interop, Interoperability, iOS, Mac Catalyst, macOS, MAUI, Mobile, Preview 10, Razor, RCL, Web, Windows, WinUI, WinUI 3, WinUI3, Xamarin