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.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development - Second Edition

By : Roger Ye
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Book Image

.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development - Second Edition

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By: Roger Ye

Overview of this book

An evolution of Xamarin.Forms, .NET MAUI is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. Using .NET MAUI, you can develop apps that’ll run on Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows from a single shared codebase. In this revised edition of .NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development you will be introduced to .NET 8 and get up to speed with app development in no time. The book begins by showing you how to develop a cross-platform application using .NET MAUI, including guidance for migrating from Xamarin.Forms. You’ll gain all the knowledge needed to create a cross-platform application for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows following an example project step by step. As you advance, you’ll integrate the latest frontend technology into your app using Blazor components, including the new Blazor Bindings feature. After this, you’ll learn how to test and deploy your apps. With new coverage on creating mock .NET MAUI components, you can develop unit tests for your application. You will additionally learn how to perform Razor component testing using bUnit. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to develop your own cross-platform applications using .NET MAUI.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Free Chapter
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Part 1: Exploring .NET MAUI
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Part 2: Implementing .NET MAUI Blazor
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Part 3: Testing and Deployment
16
Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Creating a new .NET MAUI Blazor project

To learn how to develop a Blazor Hybrid app, we need to upgrade our PassXYZ.Vault project to accommodate a Blazor-based UI. Fortunately, we don’t need to start from scratch – we can simply modify our existing project to support the Blazor UI. By doing this, we can efficiently build both an XAML-based app and a Hybrid app within the same project. Before incorporating the Blazor UI into our app, let’s first establish a new .NET MAUI Blazor project with an identical app name. This will allow us to reference the new project when converting our current project into a .NET MAUI Blazor project.

We have the option to create this new .NET MAUI Blazor project either through the command line or via Visual Studio. We will demonstrate both methods in this section.

Generating a .NET MAUI Blazor project with the dotnet command line

Let us begin by creating a new project using the .NET command line. This can be accomplished...