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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
1
Part 1: Exploring .NET MAUI
9
Part 2: Implementing .NET MAUI Blazor
13
Part 3: Testing and Deployment
16
Other Books You May Enjoy
17
Index

Unit testing in .NET

To develop unit test cases, it is common to utilize a unit test framework to enhance efficiency. There are several unit test frameworks available in the .NET environment, which are as follows:

  • Microsoft Test Framework (MSTest) comes bundled with Visual Studio. The initial version of MSTest (V1) was not an open-source product, and it first appeared alongside the release of Visual Studio 2005. For more information about MSTest (V1), please refer to the book Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Unleashed by Lars Powers and Mike Snell. Later, Microsoft made the MSTest (V2) open-source, hosting it on GitHub, with the first release becoming available around 2017.
  • NUnit is an open-source testing framework ported from JUnit. It was the inaugural unit test framework for .NET, with its earliest releases hosted on SourceForge in 2004. For more information on version 2.0, please refer to the release notes in the Further reading section. The latest releases have since...