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.NET MAUI 9: Introducing the HybridWebView Project Template

.NET MAUI 9 App using HybridWebView - Seamless interaction between .NET and JavaScript
.NET MAUI 9 App using HybridWebView - Seamless interaction between .NET and JavaScript

HybridWebView is one of the two prominent enhancements in .NET MAUI 9, the recently released major version of the cross-platform App UI framework.

An article that comprehensively outlines the significant features of this version has already been published and is accessible here.

Consult this article titled Exploring .NET MAUI 9 – HybridWebView to delve into the details of this new control.

Nonetheless, the components that constitute the HybridWebView project must be assembled manually, as there is no inherent template available akin to that of Blazor Hybrid. So, it is appropriate to include one in the .NET MAUI All-in-One Templates pack. As the name suggests, has a slew of features under the hood to work with .NET MAUI, consult the articles linked here to know more about them.

Glad to introduce a new project template using HybridWebView in the templates pack v6.1. This article will describe how to install and utilize this new project template.

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Exploring .NET MAUI 9: HybridWebView Features

.NET MAUI 9 - HybridWebView
.NET MAUI 9 - HybridWebView

.NET MAUI 9 is the next major version of the cross-platform application UI framework. An article detailing the significant features of this version has already been published and can be accessed here.

This release features two prominent enhancements:

The TitleBar support for MacCatalyst is in progress. Track here.

This article will delve into the details of HybridWebView.

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What’s New in .NET MAUI 9: A Comprehensive Overview

.NET MAUI 9 - Window and TitleBar
.NET MAUI 9 - Window and TitleBar

.NET 9, the next major version of .NET following the annual release cadence, will be a Short-Term Support (STS) release, which will be supported for 18 months from release.

This release is packed with a broad set of features. The primary highlight is the support for Native AOT across app models.

In this article, we’ll explore the high-level features of .NET MAUI 9.

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MSBuild 2023 – Focus on .NET MAUI and Blazor Hybrid

ChatGPT and Copilot were the primary focus of this year’s MSBuild 2023, Microsoft’s annual developer conference.

From the .NET MAUI perspective, with just around 1 year of official support left for Xamarin, which will end on May 1, 2024, the main focus was on the upgrade from Xamarin to .NET MAUI.

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.NET MAUI – Blazor Hybrid – WinUI 3

.NET MAUI and Blazor – Best of both modern technologies for Mobile, Desktop, and Web solutions from a single codebase.

But app development is of two categories: Existing ones and Greenfield development. New features can be part of the latter quite easily as they’re done from scratch but definitely not that easy on the former as existing investments need to be protected. Changes can be quite expensive as they need to be thoroughly validated before rolling out to production use.

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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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Blazor – All along the way – Hybrid Apps

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.

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All-in-One .NET MAUI App Project Template – What’s New

This is a follow-up article describing the new features added to the latest release that supports .NET MAUI RC1. For installation and options available in this template, a detailed article is linked here.

Update: The latest article describing the template features of .NET 8 is available here.

This release is now loaded with 4 new features:

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.NET MAUI – RC1 – BlazorWebView – Streamlined

Yesterday, Apr 12, 2022, the first Release Candidate (RC) version of .NET MAUI got released with the freeze in API design surface before General Availability (GA) in May later this year. After multiple preview releases in the past 13 months, in fact, it all started with .NET 6 Preview 2 on Mar 11, 2021, and now reached the RC stage where it can be deployed to Production and backed by an official go-live support policy.

Visual Studio 17.2.0 Preview 3.0 was also released with an updated Mobile Workload to support the same.

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.NET MAUI – Blazor – Interop

.NET MAUI - Blazor - Interop
.NET MAUI - Blazor - Interop

This is Part 2 in the multi-part series of .NET MAUI – Blazor articles.

In Part 1, we’ve seen an introduction on how to make use of BlazorWebView in the .NET MAUI app.

Part 3 of this series is on the streamlined process of registering the dependencies for BlazorWebView from .NET MAUI RC1 release.

Since it is implemented as a View, it’s possible to share data between .NET MAUI and Blazor and that’s the takeaway of this article. Along with that, the core logic is now abstracted as Razor Class Library (RCL), Dependency Injection, and Component routing for Navigation.

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