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.NET MAUI Community Standup

.NET MAUI Project File - Base TFM and Conditional OutputType
.NET MAUI Project File - Base TFM and Conditional OutputType

The topic for this month’s .NET MAUI community standup is so interesting, Testing your MAUI Apps ft. Gerald Versluis.

Remember to join live on Thu, Apr 4 at 17:00 UTC. Click the link to access the timing in your local/preferred time zone. Note, it’s back at the same time.

Update: The community links for this month’s standup are here.

A clip from the recorded standup discussing the perplexing errors encountered during the testing of .NET MAUI Apps.

The All-in-One .NET MAUI App templates support this feature out of the box by incorporating the base framework TFM and conditionally configuring the OutputType property 😊.

.NET MAUI Project File - Base TFM and Conditional OutputType
.NET MAUI Project File – Base TFM and Conditional OutputType
dotnet new mauiapp -o MyApp

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 – Styles

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.

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.NET MAUI – BindableLayout

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.

The BindableLayout functions as an item repeater, enabling an ILayout to interact with a data-bound IEnumerable.

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.NET MAUI – Margin and Padding

Starting a new series titled Developer Tips which offers small hints to enhance developer productivity.

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.

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Using WSA for .NET MAUI Android Development

Windows Subsystem for Android - Advanced Settings - Developer Mode
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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