.NET MAUI 10 is the fifth major release of .NET MAUI, a cross-platform framework for building mobile and desktop apps.
It’s slated for a GA release during the .NET Conf, an annual virtual developer event, scheduled from Nov 11-13, 2025.
It’s packed with many quality of life improvements. The Global and Implicit Namespace for XAML feature is the pick of the lot.
To learn about the key features of .NET MAUI 10, check out this Overview article.
Visual Studio 2026, codenamed Dev18, is the next-gen AI-powered IDE. It empowers millions of developers around the world. They create applications for Web, Desktop, Mobile, Gaming, and more.
The VS team shares the public preview version of the IDE with early adopters. This happens before releasing it to the Stable channel.
To match Windows, the Preview channel is now called Insiders. Insiders can try new features before everyone else.
Now, the first VS2026 Insiders release is available for download. Further details in this article.
Visual Studio’s extensibility model adds to its robustness. Several extensions are hosted in the VS Marketplace. They cater to the specific needs of developers in different stages of software development.
Last month, the first public preview of .NET 10, an LTS version, was released.
A detailed blog post describing the release overview is here.
Update: .NET 10 Preview 2 is now available and is detailed here. Comes with a lot of exciting new features. Try now.
Like .NET 9, details of preview releases for .NET 10 will also be published in the GitHub discussion, and Preview 1 is here.
And what’s changed in this .NET MAUI 10 Preview 1 is here. Have a look at the tentatively planned features on .NET 10 here and Roadmap here.
This article is part of the MVVM – Made Easy series, with a focus on the initial preview release of v8.4 of the CommunityToolkit.Mvvm (aka Microsoft MVVM Toolkit) NuGet package, which includes support for Partial Properties.
Update as of Dec 2024: The v8.4 stable release is now available. For further details, please refer to this blog post.
Here are the links to other articles in this series.
Support for Partial Properties is one of most sought after features in the MVVM toolkit as it allows to define custom access modifier for property accessors and makes code more readable. The need for an analyzer to track the usage of a field instead of a (generated) property is no longer necessary.
.NET 9, the next major version of .NET following the annual release cadence, will be a Short-Term Support (STS) release, which will be supported for 18 months from release.
This release is packed with a broad set of features. The primary highlight is the support for Native AOT across app models.
In this article, we’ll explore the high-level features of .NET MAUI 9.
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.
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.
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.
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().
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.
In light of the recent announcements, the article has been updated to incorporate info on support for JetBrains Rider IDE at the conclusion.