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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit Maps in WinUI 3 App

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit Maps - WinUI 3 App
.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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.NET MAUI – Native Embedding

.NET MAUI - Native Embedding
.NET MAUI - Native Embedding

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

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

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.NET MAUI – Nightly Builds

.NET MAUI App running on a Nightly Build
.NET MAUI App running on a Nightly Build

At first, .NET 6 and .NET 7 versions of .NET MAUI were released only via SDK Workloads whereas from .NET 8 onwards (Preview 4 to be precise), it is now distributed as a base workload and suite of NuGet packages on top of it.

This NuGet-based release process allows trying different versions of .NET MAUI which are released on top of a base workload on the same machine without the complexities of moving between different workload versions.

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.NET MAUI on .NET 9

.NET MAUI on .NET 9
.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

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 – 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

Xamarin.Forms Generic Item Templates by Vijay Anand E G
Xamarin.Forms Generic Item Templates - Custom dialog

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 for Visual Studio 2022

.NET MAUI Generic Item dialog - Part of All-in-One Templates Pack by Vijay Anand E G
.NET MAUI Generic Item dialog

Last week introduced the .NET MAUI Generic Item Templates for CLI. Since switching between the IDE and the Terminal is always a constraint. So decided to implement the revolutionary generic templates within the IDE itself so the experience is quite delightful. The right tools and techniques result in improved productivity. Achieve more in less time.

Published as a VS extension, starting v4.9.0.0

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.NET MAUI 8 SR1/SR2

.NET MAUI 8 SR1
.NET MAUI 8 SR1

After the holidays, the first service release (SR1) of .NET MAUI on .NET 8 was released today. This release is published as a NuGet package rather than a workload update as it tries to address many of the issues faced with the GA release. The changelog is available here. So instead of doing an dotnet workload update, follow the steps given below to pull the latest version so the change is minimal and future-proof for the existing projects.

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