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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit v10.0: How to Fix BindingContext Issues with Behaviors

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit v10.0 - How to Fix Behaviors BindingContext Issues
.NET MAUI Community Toolkit v10.0 - How to Fix Behaviors BindingContext Issues

Yesterday marked the official release of the highly anticipated .NET MAUI Toolkit (CommunityToolkit.Maui) package v10.0, introducing native support for .NET 9.

Though it is the extended arm of .NET MAUI app development, for newcomers, this officially supported toolkit offers a comprehensive collection of essential components—such as Alerts, Behaviors, Converters, Extensions, Layouts, and Views—that are crucial for developing real-world apps.

This new release has some breaking changes, with the most notable being aligning with the design change introduced in .NET MAUI 9, where Behaviors no longer automatically inherit the BindingContext of their parent (a major shift from the original Xamarin.Forms design).

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XAML Basics: Building UI with .NET MAUI and More – Part 2

XAML Basics: Building UI with .NET MAUI and More
XAML Basics: Building UI with .NET MAUI and More

This article represents the second installment of the XAML for Beginners series, which elucidates the concept of declarative markup in the context of defining UI in .NET applications. All articles within this series are accessible from here.

The initial article focused mainly on introducing XAML and its building blocks.

In this article, the focus will be on the following:

  • Attached Properties
  • Generics
  • Passing Arguments
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XAML Basics: Building UI with .NET MAUI and More

XAML Basics: Building UI with .NET MAUI and More
XAML Basics: Building UI with .NET MAUI and More

Starting a new series entitled XAML for Beginners elucidates the concept of declarative markup to define UI in .NET applications. All articles within this series can be accessed from here.

The second installment of this series is now available to read here.

XAML is an acronym that stands for eXtensible Application Markup Language. It was first introduced in 2006, accompanying the initial release of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) alongside .NET 3.0.

The principal objective of this methodology is to segregate the UI design from the program logic. This separation allows the design team to focus solely on the UI, while the program logic can be developed and evaluated independently. Consequently, these components can be integrated into a unified system.

The MVVM design pattern is an exemplary framework for accomplishing this. However, XAML also supports the code-behind approach.

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MVVM Toolkit v8.4: Custom Access Modifiers for Partial Properties – How To

MVVM Toolkit - Support for Partial Properties with Custom Access Modifier
MVVM Toolkit - Support for Partial Properties with Custom Access Modifier

This article is part of the MVVM – Made Easy series, with a focus on the initial preview release of v8.4 of the CommunityToolkit.Mvvm (aka Microsoft MVVM Toolkit) NuGet package, which includes support for Partial Properties.

Update as of Dec 2024: The v8.4 stable release is now available. For further details, please refer to this blog post.

Here are the links to other articles in this series.

Support for Partial Properties is one of most sought after features in the MVVM toolkit as it allows to define custom access modifier for property accessors and makes code more readable. The need for an analyzer to track the usage of a field instead of a (generated) property is no longer necessary.

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Enhance Gesture Binding with the Shared Toolkit

The year 2024 began with an article outlining the improvements in the Shared Toolkit through the optimization of specifying the Binding as a LINQ expression, without requiring an additional getter or setter.

Mainly, the Binding expression is statically typed, providing better control by aiding in identifying errors during compilation. Furthermore, it preserves the default binding behavior of the View, such as the two-way binding in the case of Entry, enabling editing. This behavior can be modified using the BindingMode parameter.

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