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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

Binding to collections

In the previous section, we replaced the model using PassXYZLib. When we introduced data binding, we used ItemDetailPage and ItemDetailViewModel to explain how to bind the source property to the target property.

For the item detail page, we created data binding from one source to one target. However, there are many cases in which we need to bind a data collection to the UI, such as ListView or CollectionView, to display a group of data.

Figure 4.8: Binding to collections

Figure 4.9: Binding to collections

As we can see in Figure 4.9, when we create a data binding from a collection object to a collection view, the ItemsSource property is the one to use. In .NET MAUI, collection views such as ListView and CollectionView can be used, and both have an ItemsSource property.

For the collection object, we can use any collection that implements the IEnumerable interface. However, the changes to the collection object may not be able to update the UI automatically. In order to update...