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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

Creating your first .NET MAUI app

Let’s create our first .NET MAUI app! Before we can start writing any code, we need to set up our machine by installing some bits. So, let’s walk through these initial setup steps together and see what options we have. Once we’re set up, we’ll move on to the exciting part: creating a .NET MAUI app from scratch, step by step.

Setting up your machine

Getting started with .NET MAUI development is pretty simple, especially if you are using Visual Studio as your IDE. But even if you don’t want to use Visual Studio, the installation should be quite straightforward.

About .NET SDK versions and workloads

.NET MAUI is available from .NET 6, and at the time of writing the book, .NET 8 is the most recent version. It is important to note that every version of .NET comes with a specific support policy: there are Long-Term Support (LTS) releases, which provide 3 years of free support and patches, and there are Standard...