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Join .NET Conf 2024 Online: Explore .NET 9 Features

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Oct 28, 2024
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.NET Conf 2024 - Annual Virtual Developer Event - Release of .NET 9

November is set to be an exceptionally significant month for .NET developers globally, as a new version of .NET will be officially released during its annual event, .NET Conf. Similar to previous years, this year’s event will also be conducted virtually, allowing participation online. The highly anticipated .NET 9 is scheduled for release during this conference, which will take place over three days from Tue, Nov 12, 2024, to Thu, Nov 14, 2024. Please mark your calendars accordingly.

Quite like .NET 7, .NET 9 is also a short-term support (STS) release, which will be supported for 18 months till mid-May 2026. Even-numbered releases are LTS whereas odd-numbered are STS. More details on the release lifecycle are here. The support for .NET 6 (the previous LTS release) ends (more details here), with .NET 7 already out of support, and .NET 8, the current LTS release, has another 2 years of support till early Nov 2026.

Due to the underlying external dependencies, the support policy of .NET MAUI differs significantly from .NET, each major release will be supported only for 18 months. So, if you’re using .NET MAUI 8, support will cease by mid-May 2025 (in another 6 months). Hence, it’s necessary to plan for your app migration to .NET MAUI 9. An article has already been published detailing the comprehensive features of .NET MAUI 9.

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Getting Started with Syncfusion’s .NET MAUI Toolkit

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Oct 23, 2024

Syncfusion.Maui.Toolkit NuGet package - A collection of free and open-source .NET MAUI controls

Yesterday, Syncfusion, a prominent vendor of software components, announced its dedication to contributing to .NET MAUI and the release of the initial set of free and open-source controls for .NET MAUI, which is now available as a NuGet package titled Syncfusion.Maui.Toolkit.

Microsoft has gladly welcomed Syncfusion’s open-source contributions, a gesture seen as a positive step for .NET MAUI confirming the ongoing commitment to the cross-platform framework.

Syncfusion is utilizing its proficiency in developing software components to collaborate with Microsoft, with the objective of significantly enhancing .NET MAUI. Their team is already making a noteworthy impact.

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CommunityToolkit.Mvvm: Resolving Windows 10 MVVM Project Build Issues

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Oct 2, 2024

Undoubtedly, CommunityToolkit.Mvvm, aka Microsoft MVVM Toolkit, has recently become one of the most popular NuGet packages among MVVM developers.

It effectively abstracts away the boilerplate code, enabling developers to concentrate exclusively on the task.

However, after the release of package version 8.3 and later, while building the project referencing this Toolkit has encountered failures, accompanied by perplexing error messages like System.TypeInitializationException or Found conflicts between different versions of 'WinRT.Runtime' that could not be resolved. when targeting the Windows 10 platform.

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.NET MAUI – App Theming – Create Stylish Apps

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Jul 3, 2024
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This is the fourth article in the recently started series titled Developer Tips, which offers concise hints to enhance productivity. All the articles in this series can be accessed from here.

Basically, theming refers to managing a consistent look and feel across the app. An app can be themed in a variety of ways (MS Office and Visual Studio offer various themes). For mobile apps, the most significant themes are the Light and Dark modes, both of which are inherently supported by the OS. So, the app should have the capability to adapt to mode changes to the least.

Consulting the previous article on Styles is recommended as a foundation for Theming.

Excerpt from the preceding article:

Styles can be referenced through StaticResource or DynamicResource. The key difference is that the former is applied just once, while the lattter maintains a reference and adjusts to changes in themes.

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.NET MAUI 9 Preview 5 XAML Compilation Issue: Resolving Content Property Error

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Jun 15, 2024

After the installation of .NET MAUI 9 Preview 5, an XAML compilation (XAMLC) issue has arisen.

In general, it is not necessary to explicitly specify the default property such as Content, Children, etc.

The Content is the default property for Page, View, and Toolkit’s Popup, and this XAMLC issue is about the Content property.

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.NET MAUI – CommunityToolkit – MediaElement – Preview Release

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Oct 26, 2022
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The most requested feature from Xamarin.CommunityToolkit package, MediaElement, is now getting ported to the .NET MAUI CommunityToolkit following the MAUI’s very own handler-based implementation.

Peter Foot and other members of the repository are hard at work to make it available by the .NET 7 GA release timeframe scheduled early next month during the .NET Conf 2022.

This package is now released as a stable release in Jan 2023, and details have been covered in a separate article here.

Tags .NET 6, .NET 7, .NET MAUI, Android, Audio, CommunityToolkit, Desktop, HLS, iOS, Live Streaming, Mac Catalyst, macOS, MAUI, Media, Media Player, MediaElement, Movie, MP3, MP4, Music, Playback, Podcast, Toolkit, Video, Windows, WinUI, Xamarin, Xamarin.Forms

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Blazor – All along the way – Hybrid Apps

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date May 27, 2022
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This is the fourth article in the .NET MAUI – Blazor series and have provided links for the other 3 articles previously published.

This article primarily focuses on the Blazor Hybrid scenarios.

The reason is the potential of Blazor, the modern web UI stack based on Razor SDK and allows to work with C# language constructs which can be used across multiple frameworks with the introduction of BlazorWebView, now officially supported on .NET MAUI, classic Windows desktop application frameworks such as Windows Forms (WinForms) and WPF.

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MVVM – Made Easy with Microsoft MVVM Toolkit – Part 2

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date May 9, 2022
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This article is the second part of this MVVM – Made Easy series. The first part of this article, covering the basics, is linked here.

As seen in the first part, INotifyPropertyChanged (INPC) is the interface that defines the event which raises the notification whenever the value of the property gets changed.

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MVVM – Made Easy with Microsoft MVVM Toolkit – Part 1

Post author By Vijay Anand E G
Post date Apr 22, 2022
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The Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) is a software design pattern that is structured to separate program (business) logic and user interface controls. The main advantage is, that the program logic is fully unit-testable as it functions independently of the UI controls (loosely coupled). It is very popular among the developers of XAML-based UI frameworks such as WPF, UWP, Xamarin.Forms, .NET MAUI, WinUI, and even other 3rd Party frameworks such as Uno.

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