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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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.NET MAUI – Styles

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

A style is characterized by a collection of interrelated properties that aim to improve resource management within the application. It is defined as a list of Setters. A Setter has a property and a value.

Styles can be incorporated into the Resources property, of type ResourceDictionary, defined at the VisualElement level.

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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.

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
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Starting a new series titled Developer Tips which offers small hints to enhance developer productivity.

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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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 8 SDK – Visual Studio 2022 Compatibility

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Mar 13, 2024
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.NET 8 SDK - Visual Studio 2022 17.10 Preview 2.0 Compatibility Issue

Today being the second Tuesday of the month marks the occurrence of Patch Tuesday, signifying the release of a new set of updates.

The second preview for .NET 9 is now available in the Preview channel, while Quality updates have been made accessible in the stable channel.

Quite like the SDK, Visual Studio 2022 has also received updates. The latest update includes VS2022 17.10.0 Preview 2.0 and 17.9.3 in the Stable channel.

Note: The stable version 17.9.3 release incorporates .NET MAUI 8.0.7 (SR2) workload update, which was previously available as a NuGet package update.

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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™️ (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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