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.NET MAUI Community Standup

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Apr 4, 2024

.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 😊.

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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What’s New in .NET MAUI 9 Preview 2

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Mar 13, 2024
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.NET MAUI - Multi-Project App with the option to Select Platforms

Yesterday, the second preview release of the .NET MAUI 9 was hot off the press. Here is the changelog.

To install the preview version, please refer to this article: .NET MAUI on .NET 9.

The distinguishing characteristic of .NET MAUI, with its initial design objective, is its single-project architecture.

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.NET MAUI Community Toolkit Maps in WinUI 3 App

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Mar 7, 2024

.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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Using WSA for .NET MAUI Android Development

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Mar 5, 2024
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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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.NET MAUI – Native Embedding

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Feb 29, 2024

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

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Feb 24, 2024
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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

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

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 Blazor Hybrid – Windows Desktop Templates

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Jan 11, 2024

Windows Forms and WPF are proven solid frameworks for creating high-performance Windows desktop client applications.

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

When these two 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 and an option to modernize the existing applications.

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