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.NET MAUI Blazor Desktop Getting Started Mobile Web Xamarin

.NET MAUI – Blazor – Getting Started

BlazorWebView in .NET MAUI
BlazorWebView in .NET MAUI

This is Part 1 in the multi-part series of .NET MAUI – Blazor articles.

Part 2 on abstracting core logic as Razor Class Library (RCL), Component Navigation, and Sharing AppState between .NET MAUI and Blazor is now published. Click here to read the article.

Part 3 of this series on the streamlined process of registering the dependencies for BlazorWebView from .NET MAUI RC1 release is now published. Click here to read the article.

.NET MAUI, Multi-platform App UI, a framework to develop high-performant, cross-platform, native mobile and desktop applications for Android, iOS, macOS (via Mac Catalyst), and Windows from a single codebase.

And Blazor, a framework for full-stack web development with C# and Razor.

When these two modern technologies come together, then it’s certainly a delight for the .NET developers as it paves the way to leverage the skills they’re already familiar with.

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.NET MAUI Desktop Getting Started Mobile Visual Studio Xamarin

.NET MAUI – What’s New in Preview 8

Windows Platform in .NET MAUI Single Project Ecosystem

In the previous article, we’ve seen how to install/update the prerequisites that are necessary to work with .NET MAUI Preview 8 application.

In this article, we’re going to see the changes that got newly introduced as part of this preview and what’s changed from the earlier ones.

The most important thing is now WinUI artifacts, targeting the Windows platform, are now part of the Single project, the original design goal of .NET MAUI. Yes, one single project for all 4 presently supported target platforms. WinUI works on top of WindowsAppSDK, rebranded from Project Reunion, 1.0 (experimental) version.

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.NET MAUI Desktop Getting Started Mobile Visual Studio Xamarin

.NET MAUI – Steps to Update to Preview 8

.NET MAUI Preview 8 - Workload Installation - Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4
.NET MAUI Preview 8 - Workload Installation - Visual Studio 2022 Preview 4

First things first, .NET 6 RC1 and .NET MAUI Preview 8 got released this week but the big breaking news is that .NET MAUI will be ready for Production use (General Availability) only by early Q2 of 2022 (next year) and NOT as originally planned with .NET 6 GA by Nov 2021.

This is definitely sad news for all those Xamarin/.NET MAUI developers who wanted to leverage this brand-new architecture. Hopefully by that time, if additional targets such as Linux/Wasm gets onboard, it would be worth waiting.

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.NET MAUI Desktop Mobile Xamarin

.NET MAUI – Manage App Resources

Manage App Resources in .NET MAUI
Manage App Resources in .NET MAUI

Resource management is one of the key aspects of app development, be it mobile or desktop. The developer has to deal with a variety of resources ranging from images, fonts, splash screen, styles, and raw assets like HTML, PDF, or could be even simple text files.

That too when it comes to cross-platform development, each platform has its own way of managing resources and it’s a daunting task for the development team to know and manage all those things. For example, image requirements in multiple sizes to support devices with various resolutions for a rich experience. Fortunately, icon fonts solve a part of this problem by auto-scaling. But still, font is managed differently in each of the platforms.

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.NET MAUI Developer Windows 11 Xamarin

Windows 11 Update

If you work on Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.Forms or .NET MAUI, then think before you upgrade to Windows 11 on that machine. The reason being Android Emulator fails to start and seems many of them have already reported this issue via Windows Feedback and on other channels. I’m yet to find a solution to this issue. I updated to Windows 11 21H2 OS build 22000.100. And it’s currently running OS build 22000.194 (same as RTM version). The only possibility, for now, is to make use of a physical device. Thanks to Wi-Fi debugging.

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.NET MAUI Extensions Templates Visual Studio Xamarin

.NET MAUI – Templates for Visual Studio 2022

With .NET 6 Preview 6 released on Jul 14, 2021, and now Preview 7 released on Aug 10, 2021, .NET MAUI progressed a lot with Workloads, Gestures, Clipping, Alerts, New Layouts, and mainly first-class support for Visual Studio 2022 (with Preview 3.x). But, there is a catch in here. NO item templates for Visual Studio for now :-(.

Update: This extension is now updated to support .NET MAUI Preview 10 with VS2022 Preview (17.1.0 Preview 1.0) IDE and .NET MAUI (Preview) Mobile Development workload installed. This can be downloaded and installed from the same link mentioned in this article.

Update: A more advanced all-in-one .NET MAUI App project template is now available to install. Check out this article for more details.

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.NET MAUI Desktop Getting Started Mobile Xamarin

.NET MAUI – Project Template

You might wonder whether you’ve read the title of this post correctly, yes, of course, .NET MAUI project template is now available from the .NET CLI toolset and VS IDE.

Both VS2019 and VS2022 for Windows are now provisioned with project templates for both Maui as well as Maui Blazor app models. Use VS2019 16.11 Preview 4.0 or VS2022 Preview 3.0 or later version to build the project.

And, users on macOS can continue to use VS Code for time being as Microsoft is doing a complete revamp of Visual Studio for Mac. Develop MAUI app in VS Code with Comet for .NET Mobile extension. For further details, read this article.

Update: A far more advanced all-in-one .NET MAUI App project template is now available to install. Check out this article for more details.

Have published a VS extension to install the item templates that target .NET MAUI Preview. To know more about it, take a look at this .NET MAUI – Templates for Visual Studio article.

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