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.NET MAUI quality improvements in Preview 12
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Published onJanuary 20, 2022
published onJanuary 20, 2022
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Microsoftjust released Preview 12 of the .NET Multi-platform App UIotherwise known as .NET MAUI. For those living under a rock, this is a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop applications levering .NET and C#. This allows developers to build applications that work across pretty much any operating system under the sun with a single framework, programming language and shared codebase. In short, an evolution of .NET Xamarin.Forms.
With preview 12 come some exciting enhancements, let’s talk about a few of them.
Shell Navigation
Xamarin.Forms Shell simplifies mobile app development by offering the essential functionalities that most apps need. Developers can access Shell.Current to issue navigation commands from pretty much anywhere, listen to navigation events, and more. One of the biggest features brought forward is the ability to query parameters.
For example :
Shell Dependency Injection
Another amazing enhancement is the ability to leverage dependency injection. Starting with Preview 12 developers can now define their dependencies in their main class and use it in their pages
Other improvements
Aside from improvements to Shell, there are quite a few important bug fixes being included with this release. To read more about these head over the theblog post from Microsoft’s David Ortinau.
Before getting started it might be a good idea to do the following…
Before installing Visual Studio 2022 Preview, we highly recommend starting from a clean slate byuninstalling all .NET 6previews andVisual Studio 2022 previews.
Now, install Visual Studio 2022 Preview (17.1 Preview 3) and confirm .NET MAUI (preview) is checked under the “Mobile Development with .NET workload”.
– David Ortinau, .NET Multi-platform App UI
Overall .NET MAUI is shaping up to be a very exiting platform and an amazing follow up to Xamarin.Forms which was already a very formidable offering on its own. Have you been building your own .NET MAUI powered apps? What has been your experience?
Radu Tyrsina
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