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.NET MAUI for C# Developers

By : Jesse Liberty, Juarez
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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 examined the markup language XAML, which is used to create layouts and controls. We saw that anything that can be done in XAML can also be done in C#, and we saw that there are two ways to write that C#: the traditional declarative way and the newer fluent form.

We examined a few important classes (Button, Label, Image, and so on) and how events can be handled in the code-behind class. I also hinted that code-behind event handlers will be replaced by commands and their implementation in the ViewModel in the next chapter.

In Chapter 4, we’ll dive into the principal architecture for writing apps in .NET MAUI: Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) and we’ll look at data binding. We’ll then explore a number of controls and how they can work together.