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.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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