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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

3 (1)
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

Migrating to a .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid App

In the previous section, we created a new Hybrid app, which will serve as a reference for migrating our existing application. Instead of starting from scratch, we can take advantage of both the XAML and Blazor UIs within our current app by adjusting the project configuration. For now, we will implement a combination of XAML and Blazor UIs in a single application and, later on, transition entirely to Blazor in the following chapter.

To convert our app into a .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid app, it is necessary to implement the following modifications.

Change the SDK in the project file by replacing Microsoft.NET.Sdk with Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Razor, as the .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid app relies on a different SDK.

  1. In the PassXYZ.Vault.csproj project file, the following line is present:
    <Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
    
  2. This line needs to be replaced with the following:
    <Project Sdk=&quot...