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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit Maps in WinUI 3 App

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Mar 7, 2024

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit Maps - WinUI 3 App

This article provides a comprehensive guide on leveraging the Maps feature from the .NET MAUI Community Toolkit in a WinUI 3 App through the robust Embedding feature.

The CommunityToolkit.Maui.Maps NuGet package provides access to Bing Maps through a WebView on Windows. The Handler definitions for the Windows platform for the .NET MAUI Maps feature are hosted in this package.

To ensure the Maps feature functions correctly on the native WinUI 3 App, it is imperative to slightly adjust the feature initialization in the MAUI pipeline.

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Using WSA for .NET MAUI Android Development

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Mar 5, 2024
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Windows Subsystem for Android - Advanced Settings - Developer Mode

Windows Subsystem for Android™️ (WSA) enables your Windows 11 device to run Android applications.

Even though optimization techniques such as Intel HAXM are available, there is a marginal performance tradeoff when using the Android Emulator.

The Subsystem has been designed to function as an integral OS component, providing superior performance compared to the Android Emulator.

From my perspective, the only drawback of using WSA is the lack of support for Google Play Services (as it works with Amazon Appstore). So any apps that rely on those services, WSA might not be the best fit. So continue to use the Android Emulator or the Physical device.

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.NET MAUI Community Standup

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Mar 4, 2024
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The topic for this month’s .NET MAUI community standup is so special, it’s Aspire, the talk of the town. A match made in the cloud!!!

Remember to join live on Thu, Mar 7 at 18:00 UTC. Click the link to access the timing in your local/preferred time zone.

.NET MAUI and Aspire – A match made in the Cloud!!!

Happy coding. Stay connected as we continue to learn and share the experiences from this exciting journey of being a .NET developer.

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.NET MAUI – Native Embedding

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Feb 29, 2024

The Native Embedding feature in .NET MAUI is a charming capability inherited from the legacy of Xamarin.Forms.

The platform project can make use of abstracted .NET MAUI pages and controls directly, showcasing its enhanced capabilities in this aspect.

To gain further insights, please consult my previous article outlining how to implement Blazor Hybrid in the WinUI 3 project.

When compared with the time of Xamarin.Forms, significant progress has been made in the implementation of this feature, such as the definition of a platform-independent extension method called ToPlatform().

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Using Visual Studio Code for .NET MAUI Development

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Feb 24, 2024
3 Comments on Using Visual Studio Code for .NET MAUI Development

VS Code - .NET MAUI - Select Startup Project and Debug Target

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.

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.NET MAUI on .NET 9

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:

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.NET MAUI Minutes

.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.

Have created a playlist to keep track of it. Bookmark it.

Happy coding. Stay connected as we continue to learn and share the experiences from this exciting journey of being a .NET developer.

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.NET Blazor Hybrid – Windows Desktop Templates

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Jan 11, 2024

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.

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.NET Conf 2023

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Nov 14, 2023

November will be the most exciting month for all the .NET developers around the world as new versions of .NET get released during its annual conference, .NET Conf. Quite like the previous years, this time, it will be hosted virtually and can be joined online. .NET 8 is slated to release at this year’s conference scheduled as a three-day event starting Tue, Nov 14, 2023, through Thu, Nov 16, 2023.

Now updated with YouTube links to watch the recorded sessions.

.NET 8 is a long-term support (LTS) release, which will be supported for a period of 3 years quite like .NET 6. Even-numbered releases are LTS whereas odd-numbered are STS. More details here. The support for .NET 7 ends on Tue, May 14, 2024 (in another 6 months time). If so, plan to migrate to .NET 8 ASAP.

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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.