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Elevating .NET MAUI Item Templates: Simplified Namespace Resolution in Latest Release

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Aug 9, 2024
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Back in February, an article was published on the efficient utilization of Item Templates through the use of script automation. The article, titled .NET MAUI – Item Templates – Made Easy on CLI and VS Code, provides a detailed focus on this topic.

That article addressed two issues:

Better namespace resolution
Do more with fewer keystrokes

Now, the namespace resolution issue has been partially supported within the .NET SDK, eliminating the requirement for additional script files. A PR was submitted to the .NET Templating source repository, underwent review, and was subsequently merged into the main branch. This enhancement was then included in the release of .NET 9 Preview 6.

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Join the Live Discussion: MAUI UI July 2024 in August .NET MAUI Community Standup

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Aug 1, 2024

The August .NET MAUI community standup features a discussion on MAUI UI July, with its organizer, Matt Goldman.

More details on the MAUI UI July 2024 with links to the articles are here.

Remember to join live on Thu, Aug 1 at 17:00 UTC. Click the link to access the timing in your local or preferred time zone.

The .NET MAUI Community Toolkit standup is scheduled to occur two hours after the primary event. Here’s the link to join the same.

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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Efficient Text Formatting in .NET MAUI with Label FormattedText

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Jul 9, 2024

This is the fifth article in the recently started series titled Developer Tips, which offers concise hints to enhance productivity. All the articles in this series can be accessed from here.

A label in .NET MAUI is a simple yet powerful View that presents read-only text, like titles, captions, or descriptions.

The Text property holds the string to be displayed and is also bindable.

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.NET MAUI – App Theming – Create Stylish Apps

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Jul 3, 2024
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This is the fourth article in the recently started series titled Developer Tips, which offers concise hints to enhance productivity. All the articles in this series can be accessed from here.

Basically, theming refers to managing a consistent look and feel across the app. An app can be themed in a variety of ways (MS Office and Visual Studio offer various themes). For mobile apps, the most significant themes are the Light and Dark modes, both of which are inherently supported by the OS. So, the app should have the capability to adapt to mode changes to the least.

Consulting the previous article on Styles is recommended as a foundation for Theming.

Excerpt from the preceding article:

Styles can be referenced through StaticResource or DynamicResource. The key difference is that the former is applied just once, while the lattter maintains a reference and adjusts to changes in themes.

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.NET MAUI All-in-One Templates Pack v5.6: NuGet CPM and Nightly Builds Support

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Jun 12, 2024
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.NET MAUI All-in-One Templates - Support for NuGet CPM and Nightly Builds

Firstly, .NET MAUI 9 Preview 5 has just been released. The changelog can be found here. Notably, a new Blazor Hybrid Web template has been introduced in this version.

In short, this new template abstracts the Razor components into a distinct Razor Class Library (RCL). Furthermore, it provides the ability to create Blazor Web projects within the same solution and refers to the shared RCL.

The concept of abstracting the Razor components is already facilitated by the Hybrid project templates within the All-in-One template pack.

dotnet new mauiapp -o MyApp -dp Hybrid -rcl

Will review the modifications and cover them in a distinct article.

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Enhance Gesture Binding with the Shared Toolkit

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Jun 7, 2024
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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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Enhancements in .NET MAUI All-in-One Project Templates

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Jun 7, 2024
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Abstracts the Shared components as a separate .NET MAUI Class Library

As we all know .NET MAUI is an evolution of Xamarin.Forms. The underlying architecture transitioned from Renderers to Handlers. The project structure is unified. But for the projects that are getting migrated and developers coming from Xamarin.Forms background would feel at home with the classic multi-project solution structure.

To effectively support this, the All-in-One project templates introduced an option to abstract the Shared components as a separate .NET MAUI Class Library.

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.NET MAUI All-in-One Templates Pack – 20K Installs

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Mar 27, 2024

The .NET MAUI All-in-One Templates Pack Visual Studio 2022 extension has achieved the significant milestone of 20K installations. It’s time to celebrate.🎊🎉🎇🎆

The initial version was released on Jul 18, 2021, and it took 2 years and 8 months to reach this stage with an average of 20 installations every day.

To know more about the features offered, consult this What’s New article.

If you would like to recognize the work, kindly consider sponsoring on the GitHub Sponsor page or Buy Me a Coffee page. Thanks in advance.

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 – 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. All the articles in this series can be accessed from here.

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

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Mar 22, 2024
2 Comments on .NET MAUI – Margin and Padding

Starting a new series titled Developer Tips which offers small hints to enhance developer productivity. All the articles in this series can be accessed from here.

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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