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.NET MAUI for C# Developers

By : Jesse Liberty, Rodrigo Juarez
3.7 (6)
Book Image

.NET MAUI for C# Developers

3.7 (6)
By: Jesse Liberty, Rodrigo Juarez

Overview of this book

While UI plays a pivotal role in retaining users in a highly competitive landscape, maintaining the same UI can be tricky if you use different languages for different platforms, leading to mismatches and un-synced pages. In this book, you'll see how .NET MAUI allows you to create a real-world application that will run natively on different platforms. By building on your C# experience, you’ll further learn to create beautiful and engaging UI using XAML, architect a solid app, and discover best practices for this Microsoft platform. The book starts with the fundamentals and quickly moves on to intermediate and advanced topics on laying out your pages, navigating between them, and adding controls to gather and display data. You’ll explore the key architectural pattern of Model-View-ViewModel: and ways to leverage it. You’ll also use xUnit and NSubstitute to create robust and reliable code. By the end of this book, you’ll be well-equipped to leverage .NET MAUI and create an API for your app to interact with a web frontend to the backend data using C#.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Getting Started
8
Part 2 – Intermediate Topics
12
Part 3 – Advanced Topics

Using the NSubstitute package

There are a number of different mocking libraries available to you, some free and some commercial. For this book, we’ll use NSubstitute, an open source and free option available as a NuGet package.

To get started, follow these steps:

  1. Right-click on your solution and choose ManageNugetPackagesForSolution.
  2. Go to the Browse tab and enter NSubstitute.

The first package you want is NSubstitute by Anthony Egerton et al., as shown here:

Figure 9.12 – NSubstitute NuGet package

  1. On the right, click on the project you want this added to (ForgetMeNotDemo.Tests) and click on Install, as shown in Figure 9.13:

Figure 9.13 – Installing NSubstitute

  1. Once that installs, install NSubstitute.Analyzers.CSharp, as shown in the following figure:

Figure 9.14 – Selecting NSubstitute.Analyzers.CSharp

While not strictly required, this second...