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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

Grid

Nothing comes close to Grid for flexibility, although its basic use is dead simple. A grid consists of rows and columns. You define the size of each and then fill in the resulting boxes.

By default, all the columns are the same width, and all the rows are the same height. Rows and columns are identified (by default) by their offset starting at column 0, row 0. You can leave out the 0 (it is the default value) but I advise against doing so for readability. (This is the same reason I mark private methods and classes with the private keyword.)

We can recreate the LoginPage page using Grid. Let’s look at the first approximation in full (I’ve left out the resources section, as it is unchanged):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ContentPage
    Title="Login Page"
    x:Class="ForgetMeNotDemo.View.LoginPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft...