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.NET MAUI – CommunityToolkit – MediaElement

The most requested feature from Xamarin.CommunityToolkit package, MediaElement, is now ported to the .NET MAUI CommunityToolkit following the MAUI’s very own handler-based implementation.

Due to the dependencies involved, this is released as a separate NuGet package titled CommunityToolkit.Maui.MediaElement. The NuGet package is now available to access from the public NuGet feed. The stable version supports only .NET 7 and .NET 6 backward compatibility supported in the earlier developer preview version is now out of context.

It is highly recommended to update to this latest v1.0.1 release as this aligns with the .NET MAUI’s implicit Windows AppSDK package dependency.

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.NET MAUI Code Desktop Developer Getting Started Mobile Toolkit Xamarin

.NET MAUI – CommunityToolkit – MediaElement

The most requested feature from Xamarin.CommunityToolkit package, MediaElement, is now getting ported to the .NET MAUI CommunityToolkit following the MAUI’s very own handler-based implementation.

Peter Foot and other members of the repository are hard at work to make it available by the .NET 7 GA release timeframe scheduled early next month during the .NET Conf 2022.

This package is now released as a stable release in Jan 2023, and details have been covered in a separate article here.

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.NET MAUI Deep Dive Desktop Developer Getting Started Mobile MVVM Xamarin

MVVM – Made Easy with Microsoft MVVM Toolkit – Part 1

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.

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.NET MAUI – Blazor – Getting Started

BlazorWebView in .NET MAUI
BlazorWebView in .NET MAUI

This is Part 1 in the multi-part series of .NET MAUI – Blazor articles.

Part 2 on abstracting core logic as Razor Class Library (RCL), Component Navigation, and Sharing AppState between .NET MAUI and Blazor is now published. Click here to read the article.

Part 3 of this series on the streamlined process of registering the dependencies for BlazorWebView from .NET MAUI RC1 release is now published. Click here to read the article.

.NET MAUI, Multi-platform App UI, a framework to develop high-performant, cross-platform, native mobile and desktop applications for Android, iOS, macOS (via Mac Catalyst), and Windows from a single codebase.

And Blazor, a framework for full-stack web development with C# and Razor.

When these two modern technologies come together, then it’s certainly a delight for the .NET developers as it paves the way to leverage the skills they’re already familiar with.

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.NET MAUI Desktop Getting Started Mobile Visual Studio Xamarin

.NET MAUI – What’s New in Preview 8

Windows Platform in .NET MAUI Single Project Ecosystem

In the previous article, we’ve seen how to install/update the prerequisites that are necessary to work with .NET MAUI Preview 8 application.

In this article, we’re going to see the changes that got newly introduced as part of this preview and what’s changed from the earlier ones.

The most important thing is now WinUI artifacts, targeting the Windows platform, are now part of the Single project, the original design goal of .NET MAUI. Yes, one single project for all 4 presently supported target platforms. WinUI works on top of WindowsAppSDK, rebranded from Project Reunion, 1.0 (experimental) version.

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.NET MAUI – Steps to Update to Preview 8

.NET MAUI Preview 8 - Workload Installation - Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4
.NET MAUI Preview 8 - Workload Installation - Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4

First things first, .NET 6 RC1 and .NET MAUI Preview 8 got released this week but the big breaking news is that .NET MAUI will be ready for Production use (General Availability) only by early Q2 of 2022 (next year) and NOT as originally planned with .NET 6 GA by Nov 2021.

This is definitely sad news for all those Xamarin/.NET MAUI developers who wanted to leverage this brand-new architecture. Hopefully by that time, if additional targets such as Linux/Wasm gets onboard, it would be worth waiting.

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.NET MAUI – Project Template

You might wonder whether you’ve read the title of this post correctly, yes, of course, .NET MAUI project template is now available from the .NET CLI toolset and VS IDE.

Both VS2019 and VS2022 for Windows are now provisioned with project templates for both Maui as well as Maui Blazor app models. Use VS2019 16.11 Preview 4.0 or VS2022 Preview 3.0 or later version to build the project.

And, users on macOS can continue to use VS Code for time being as Microsoft is doing a complete revamp of Visual Studio for Mac. Develop MAUI app in VS Code with Comet for .NET Mobile extension. For further details, read this article.

Update: A far more advanced all-in-one .NET MAUI App project template is now available to install. Check out this article for more details.

Have published a VS extension to install the item templates that target .NET MAUI Preview. To know more about it, take a look at this .NET MAUI – Templates for Visual Studio article.

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