After the holidays, the first service release (SR1) of .NET MAUI on .NET 8 was released today. This release is published as a NuGet package rather than a workload update as it tries to address many of the issues faced with the GA release. The changelog is available here. So instead of doing an dotnet workload update, follow the steps given below to pull the latest version so the change is minimal and future-proof for the existing projects.
Working with the .NET MAUI All-in-One Templates Pack is cool. To make it even cooler, now introducing the revolutionary .NET MAUI Generic Item Templates. Available for both XAML and C# on CLI. This feature is now available with the v4.8.0. Update now.
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.
It’s been a long time since an article describing the features of the All-in-One .NET MAUI templates pack and a lot has changed after the last article with so many new features onboarding.
As the name suggests, has a slew of features under the hood to work with .NET MAUI and is available as both a CLI Template and a VS Extension. Here’s the command to install the CLI part.
First things first, wishing you all a very happy, healthy, and prosperous new year 2024.
2023 wrapped with the release of a newer version of VijayAnand.Toolkit.Markup (aka SharedToolkit), which comes with the wrapper method that allows specifying the Binding as a LINQ expression without the need to specify an additional getter or setter.
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