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The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI

By : Pieter Nijs
Book Image

The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI

By: Pieter Nijs

Overview of this book

In today's fast-paced world of modern software development, teams need to be efficient, productive, and capable of rapidly adapting to changes to deliver high-quality products, making it crucial for developers to write maintainable and easy-to-test code. The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI helps you to thoroughly explore the Model-View-View Model (MVVM) design pattern. The chapters show you how this pattern helps in structuring code to embrace the separation of concerns, allowing for loosely coupled user interface and application logic, which ultimately empowers you to write more robust, maintainable, and testable code. The book also highlights .NET MAUI's capabilities and features, and enables you to delve into the essential components within the framework that facilitate the application of the MVVM pattern. With the help of a sample application, this definitive guide takes a hands-on approach to walk you through both the essential and advanced usages of the MVVM pattern to ensure that you successfully apply the practical aspects of the pattern to your .NET MAUI projects. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a comprehensive understanding of the MVVM design pattern and its relevance in the context of .NET MAUI, as well as developed the skills needed to successfully apply it in practice.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Part 1: Key Concepts and Components
8
Part 2: Building a .NET MAUI App Using MVVM
13
Part 3: Mastering MVVM Development

Passing results back

In this chapter, we’ve explored passing parameters from one page to another during forward navigation. But what if we need to take an object, use it as a parameter to navigate to another page, manipulate it there, and then retrieve the updated result?

There are various approaches to achieve this, but the most straightforward method is to add a little extension to our navigation framework and allow parameters to be passed when navigating back. For example, on the SettingsPage of the Recipes! app, we show the user’s current language. There’s a button that navigates to the PickLanguagePage, where the user can select a different language. The current language needs to be passed from the SettingsPage to the PickLanguage page so that the latter can show the current value. When the user selects a new language, the PickLanguagePage should navigate back to the SettingsPage and pass the selected language as a parameter. Figure 8.2 shows how this looks...