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What’s New in .NET MAUI 9 Preview 2

Yesterday, the second preview release of the .NET MAUI 9 was hot off the press. Here is the changelog.

To install the preview version, please refer to this article: .NET MAUI on .NET 9.

The distinguishing characteristic of .NET MAUI, with its initial design objective, is its single-project architecture.

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.NET MAUI – Item Templates – Made Easy on CLI and VS Code

Even though the All-in-One item templates have the same set of features in VS2022 and on the CLI. The CLI has its own limitations and here are the notable ones:

  1. The namespace resolution is not on par with its VS counterpart
    • On CLI – Defaults to the root namespace
    • Whereas in VS to the exact folder where the item is created
  2. A lot of (repeated) typing is required
    • The underlying reason is CLI’s named parameters design
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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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Introducing Xamarin.Forms Templates

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.

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Introducing .NET MAUI Generic Item Templates

Working with the .NET MAUI All-in-One Templates Pack is cool. To make it even cooler, now introducing the revolutionary .NET MAUI Generic Item Templates. Available for both XAML and C# on CLI. This feature is now available with the v4.8.0. Update now.

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.NET Blazor Hybrid – Windows Desktop Templates

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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What’s new in the .NET MAUI All-in-One Templates Pack

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.

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Data and Command Bindings – Made Easy with Shared Toolkit

First things first, wishing you all a very happy, healthy, and prosperous new year 2024.

2023 wrapped with the release of a newer version of VijayAnand.Toolkit.Markup (aka SharedToolkit), which comes with the wrapper method that allows specifying the Binding as a LINQ expression without the need to specify an additional getter or setter.

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.NET MAUI – Blazor Hybrid – StartPath

Providing a hybrid solution is uber cool as it paves way for the reuse of components across the Web, Mobile, and Desktop solutions.

But the Mobile world has matured a lot with native features such as Deep linking, App links, etc … So it’s necessary for the Apps developed in the Hybrid model to support these to stay up to date.

Whenever a link is clicked that is shared via social media or received through messaging apps, it’s expected to open in the associated app, if installed to provide the best possible user experience.

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What’s New in .NET MAUI RC2

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.