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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

Setting up for MVVM

MVVM is as much a way to organize your files and folders as it is an architectural approach. To get started using MVVM we’ll do two things:

  1. Create the folders.
  2. Download the associated Community Toolkits.

Creating folders

We will be creating three folders. Before I tell you the names of these folders, I should say there is some disagreement about what exactly to name them. Table 4.1 shows the folder names and their alternatives:

Name we’ll use

Alternative 1

Alternative 2

Model

Models

View

Views

Pages

ViewModel

ViewModels

Table 4.1 – Naming the folders

As you can see, the key difference is whether or not...