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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

Working with cultures, resource files, and localization

Before we jump into the actual coding bits and look at how we can integrate localization in MVVM, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page about what we mean by culture in the .NET MAUI context. Culture, in this case, refers to the settings that determine the language to be used and the display format for items such as dates, times, currency, and so on.

Let’s start with how to retrieve the user’s culture in .NET MAUI.

Getting the user’s culture

The CultureInfo class is part of the System.Globalization namespace in .NET and serves as a central point for obtaining culture-specific information, such as language, country, date formats, number formats, and more. It also contains CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture properties that can be used to get or set the user’s current culture and “UI culture.”

CurrentCulture versus CurrentUICulture

CurrentCulture defines...