First and foremost, wishing you all a happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year 2025.
This January, join David and Rachel as they commence the year 2025 by discussing the latest advancements in the world of .NET MAUI during the monthly community standup.
The Community Standup is a live event on the official .NET YouTube channel, hosted by the core framework team. It provides valuable insights and exciting announcements. For .NET MAUI, it usually happens on the first Thursday of each month. This time is an exception, occurring on the second Thursday, which is tomorrow (Jan 9).
.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).
This December, join David, Rachel, and guests as they wrap the year 2024 by discussing the most recent advancements in the world of .NET MAUI during the monthly community standup following the release of .NET MAUI 9, the recently released major version of the cross-platform App UI framework.
Consult this Comprehensive Overview article to know more about What’s New in .NET MAUI 9.
The Community Standup is a live event on the official .NET YouTube channel, hosted by the core framework team. It provides valuable insights and exciting announcements. For .NET MAUI, it usually happens on the first Thursday of each month.
Remember to join live on Thu, Dec 5 at 18:00 UTC. Click the link to access the timing in your local or preferred time zone.Note, that it’s an hour behind its usual schedule (Daylight Saving).
The community links for this month’s standup will be updated here.
Wishing you all a happy, prosperous, and healthy new year 2025 in advance.
Happy coding. Stay connected as we continue to learn and share the experiences from this exciting journey of being a .NET developer.
Handling UI Events with MVVM Commands in .NET MAUI using EventToCommandBehavior
This article is part of the MVVM – Made Easy series, focusing on handling UI events with ViewModel commands.
This series comprises articles that provide insights into working with the MVVM design pattern, to make it a delightful experience. All the articles in this series can be accessed from here – MVVM – Made Easy
The View serves as the user interface, while the ViewModel is composed of Properties and Commands that encapsulate the underlying logic. This architectural layering offers the distinct advantage of enabling independent development and testing of both components. Data Binding functions as the cohesive element that interlinks these two layers.
An event represents a significant mechanism for notifying state changes, such as a button click, to other components that have a vested interest in the occurrence.
The receiver component is capable of responding to the event by subscribing to it through a method whose signature corresponds with the delegate of the event ensuring type safety. And that method is generally referred to as an event handler.
However, the challenge emerges during the testing of the ViewModel, as the event is closely intertwined with the View. Business logic can’t be independently tested.
This September, the .NET MAUI monthly community standup discusses the.NET MAUI 9 release enhancements. The HybridWebView and amazing TitleBar for Windows are just the tip of the iceberg.
Remember to join live on Thu, Sep 5 at 17:30 UTC. Click the link to access the timing in your local or preferred time zone.Note, that it’s half an hour behind the usual schedule.
Update: The community links for this month’s standup are here.
Happy coding. Stay connected as we continue to learn and share the experiences from this exciting journey of being a .NET developer.
The topic for this June month’s .NET MAUI community standup is VS Code Updates.
Of late, VS Code has incorporated many new features, such as XAML IntelliSense and Hot Reload, as the end of support for VS for Mac is quickly approaching (Aug 31, 2024).
Update: The community links for this month’s standup are here.
David highlighted using MAUI Nightly Builds in the standup. Projects in the All-in-One templates pack already support utilizing the Nightly builds from version 4.6 onwards. However, setting up the package source from the CI feed involves a few manual steps as detailed in the earlier article.
But, automation is the need of the hour. The upcoming release of templates pack v5.6, scheduled for this week, will streamline the process by eliminating manual steps, ensuring seamless functionality when selecting the Nightly builds option upon project creation. Cool 😊.
Update: v5.6 has just been released. Consult this article for further details.
Remember to join live on Thu, Jun 6 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.
Happy coding. Stay connected as we continue to learn and share the experiences from this exciting journey of being a .NET developer.
.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.
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
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.
November will be the most exciting month for all the .NET developers around the world as new versions of .NET get released during its annual conference, .NET Conf. Quite like the previous years, this time, it will be hosted virtually and can be joined online. .NET 8 is slated to release at this year’s conference scheduled as a three-day event starting Tue, Nov 14, 2023, through Thu, Nov 16, 2023.
Now updated with YouTube links to watch the recorded sessions.
.NET 8 is a long-term support (LTS) release, which will be supported for a period of 3 years quite like .NET 6. Even-numbered releases are LTS whereas odd-numbered are STS. More details here. The support for .NET 7 ends on Tue, May 14, 2024 (in another 6 months time). If so, plan to migrate to .NET 8 ASAP.
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.
