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.NET MAUI for C# Developers

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

.NET MAUI for C# Developers

3.7 (6)
By: Jesse Liberty, 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

Summary

In this chapter, we reviewed four key advanced topics that allow you to manage the behavior of your app declaratively:

  • Selecting data templates allows you to change the display of your data based on the specific content of each element in a collection
  • Managing the view state allows you to modify the appearance of a control based on the state of that control (for example, does it have focus?)
  • Behaviors allow, among other things, data validation and otherwise assist in providing actions that you declare
  • Triggers change the appearance of controls based on data values in other controls or based on the state of other controls

This brings us to the end of .Net MAUI for C# Developers. You are now fully equipped to create real-world professional .NET MAUI applications.

The key to success with .NET MAUI, as with so many programming skills, is hands-on experience. If you are not currently working on a .NET MAUI project, you will want to assign one to yourself...