Beginner series
As we all know .NET MAUI is an evolution of Xamarin.Forms. The underlying architecture transitioned from Renderers to Handlers. The project structure is unified. But for the projects that are getting migrated and developers coming from Xamarin.Forms background would feel at home with the classic multi-project solution structure.
To effectively support this, the All-in-One project templates introduced an option to abstract the Shared components as a separate .NET MAUI Class Library.
This is the third article in the recently started series titled Developer Tips, which offers concise hints to enhance productivity. All the articles in the series can be accessed from here.
A style is characterized by a collection of interrelated properties that aim to improve resource management within the application. It is defined as a list of Setters. A Setter has a property and a value.
Styles can be incorporated into the Resources property, of type ResourceDictionary, defined at the VisualElement level.
This is the second article in the newly started series titled Developer Tips, which offers concise hints to enhance productivity. The inaugural article is about Margin and Padding. All the articles in this series can be accessed from here.
The BindableLayout functions as an item repeater, enabling an ILayout to interact with a data-bound IEnumerable.
Starting a new series titled Developer Tips which offers small hints to enhance developer productivity. All the articles in this series can be accessed from here.
We’ll start with the Margin and Padding that effectively position the View.
Both the properties have been appropriately defined at the View level and are of the type Thickness, which is a structure that defines 4 important properties: Left, Top, Right, and Bottom.
In August 2023, Microsoft made an official announcement regarding the retirement of Visual Studio for Mac, scheduled to take place by August 31, 2024 (in another 6 months), as stated in a blog post here.
In the same blog post, Visual Studio Code along with the C# Dev Kit is projected as a viable alternative for cross-platform .NET development. For further information on the C# Dev Kit, refer to this article.
And for .NET MAUI too, there’s an officially supported extension hosted on VS Marketplace. To know more about this, take a look at this article. C# Dev Kit is a dependency for this .NET MAUI extension.
In light of the recent announcements, the article has been updated to incorporate info on support for JetBrains Rider IDE at the conclusion.
Last Tuesday, the first preview of .NET 9, an STS release, was released along with Visual Studio 2022 17.10 Preview 1.0
Nov 2024 Update: An article has already been published detailing the comprehensive features of .NET MAUI 9.
A detailed blog post describing the Vision for .NET 9 is here. Moving forward, preview releases will be published in the GitHub discussion and for Preview 1 here.
And what’s changed in this .NET MAUI 9 Preview 1 is here. Have a look at the tentatively planned features on .NET 9 here and Roadmap here.
.NET 9 Preview 2 is available now:
.NET MAUI Minutes is a short video that provides a quick intro to the feature by Maddy Montaquilla. Learn .NET MAUI visually.
This gets uploaded on the official dotnet channel on YouTube periodically.
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Happy coding. Stay connected as we continue to learn and share the experiences from this exciting journey of being a .NET developer.
Quite like the .NET MAUI All-in-One Templates Pack, there’s a similar template pack for Xamarin.Forms too and is available as both a CLI Template and a VS Extension. Here’s the command to install the CLI part.
Windows Forms and WPF are proven solid frameworks for creating high-performance Windows desktop client applications.
Blazor, a framework for full-stack web development with C# and Razor.
When these two 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 and an option to modernize the existing applications.
It’s been a long time since an article describing the features of the All-in-One .NET MAUI templates pack and a lot has changed after the last article with so many new features onboarding.
As the name suggests, has a slew of features under the hood to work with .NET MAUI and is available as both a CLI Template and a VS Extension. Here’s the command to install the CLI part.