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Exploring .NET MAUI 9: HybridWebView Features

.NET MAUI 9 is the next major version of the cross-platform application UI framework. An article detailing the significant features of this version has already been published and can be accessed here.

This release features two prominent enhancements:

The TitleBar support for MacCatalyst is in progress. Track here.

This article will delve into the details of HybridWebView.

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Building AR and VR MAUI Apps | .NET MAUI Community Standup with Ed Charbeneau

This month’s .NET MAUI community standup focuses on Mixed Reality, specifically on building MAUI apps for AR and VR devices, featuring Ed Charbeneau, well-known in the Blazor community.

His article about Mixed Reality features in the most recent edition of Code Magazine.

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.NET MAUI All-in-One Templates Pack v5.6: NuGet CPM and Nightly Builds Support

Firstly, .NET MAUI 9 Preview 5 has just been released. The changelog can be found here. Notably, a new Blazor Hybrid Web template has been introduced in this version.

In short, this new template abstracts the Razor components into a distinct Razor Class Library (RCL). Furthermore, it provides the ability to create Blazor Web projects within the same solution and refers to the shared RCL.

The concept of abstracting the Razor components is already facilitated by the Hybrid project templates within the All-in-One template pack.

dotnet new mauiapp -o MyApp -dp Hybrid -rcl

Will review the modifications and cover them in a distinct article.

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Microsoft Build 2024: AI-Focused Sessions and .NET Highlights

It’s the month of May, so it’s time for Microsoft Build, its annual developer conference, where it’ll showcase the innovative features to the community.

It’s the age of AI, which is disrupting the status quo. So most of the sessions are scheduled along that line as expected.

For .NET MAUI, Blazor, and C#, these are the highly recommended sessions to watch.

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Blazor – All along the way – Hybrid Apps

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.