Welcome to the Sands of MAUI—newsletter-style points devoted to bringing collectively newest .NET MAUI content material related to builders.
A particle of sand—tiny and innocuous. However put lots of sand particles collectively and we have now one thing large—a drive to reckon with. It’s the smallest grains of sand that always add as much as kind large seashores, dunes and deserts.
Most .NET builders are excited with .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)—the evolution of contemporary .NET cross-platform developer expertise. Going ahead, builders ought to have a lot
extra confidence within the know-how stack and instruments as .NET MAUI empowers native cross-platform options on each cell and desktop.
Whereas it might take an extended flight to achieve the sands of MAUI island, developer pleasure round .NET MAUI is kind of palpable
in all of the shared content material. Just like the grains of sand, each piece of reports/article/documentation/video/tutorial/livestream contributes in the direction of developer data in .NET MAUI and we develop a group/ecosystem keen to study & assist.
Sands of MAUI is a humble try to gather all of the .NET MAUI awesomeness in a single place. This is what’s noteworthy for the week of December 5, 2022:
.NET MAUI Recap
.NET Conf occurred Nov 8-10 this 12 months—the defacto digital convention for all issues new and funky in .NET. With .NET 7, .NET MAUI shared a lot of the highlight and there was lot of superior content material from the workforce and group of us. Leomaris Reyes wrote up an exquisite recap of all issues .NET MAUI from .NET Conf—showcasing the large bulletins
and subjects coated.
Leomaris showcased among the information coated within the State of .NET MAUI session hosted by David Ortinau and Maddy Montaquila. Six months since .NET MAUI went Usually Obtainable (GA), there’s a a lot taking place—explosive development in developer curiosity/adoption,
efficiency enhancements with .NET 7, product lifecycle help, tooling updates and strong showcase apps. The excellent news is the entire superior .NET MAUI content material from .NET Conf is now out there on demand—builders can tempo themselves and take
all of it in.
.NET MAUI Neighborhood Toolkit
.NET MAUI Neighborhood Toolkit is an open supply library that comprises Extensions, UI/UX Controls, Converters and Behaviors, with the soul intention of augmenting .NET MAUI improvement and making the lives of builders simpler. A brand new Toolkit replace is
now out and Kym Phillpotts wrote up the announcement—all that is new in .NET MAUI Neighborhood Toolkit.
November has been a busy time for the .NET MAUI Neighborhood Toolkit with a number of releases that includes a ton of fantastic new options and an extended listing of bug fixes. The most recent launch consists of some cool new UI/UX elements—like Expander View, DockLayout
and StateContainer. The Samsung workforce has stepped up with a large contribution to now help .NET MAUI Neighborhood Toolkit on Tizen—say hey to Toolkit UI for .NET MAUI apps operating on Samsung TVs/Fridges.
As well as, the .NET MAUI Neighborhood
Toolkit now has official help for .NET 7 and MAUI.Markup Toolkit will get an replace to incorporate Fluent C# Extension Strategies for up to date app improvement patterns. For .NET MAUI builders in search of further productiveness out of the field, the .NET MAUI
Neighborhood Toolkit is right here to assist—cheers to all of the work taking place on this entrance.
Efficient Alerts in .NET MAUI
One method to maintain customers engaged in cell apps is with the correct of alerts—UX ought to have notifications that convey pertinent data at simply the correct time. Originating from Android, Toasts and Snackbars are mainstream in cell UX nowadays
and .NET MAUI builders wouldn’t be left behind.
The .NET MAUI Neighborhood Toolkit may help and Gerald Versluis produced an exquisite new video—efficient alerts with Snackbar and Toast in .NET MAUI.
Gerald begins out with the .NET MAUI Neighborhood Toolkit and explaining the variations between Snackbar/Toast. Implementing a Toast alert comes first, adopted by the extra interative Snackbar—Gerald exhibits off each alerts operating on Android.
Whereas Snackbar/Toast
alerts are largely meant for cell apps, their implementations within the .NET MAUI Neighborhood Toolkit make them slightly helpful on desktop as properly—Gerald is fast to level out how the alerts present up on Home windows. Backside line is, .NET MAUI builders have
the wanted instruments to maintain customers engaged – efficient alerts go a great distance.
.NET MAUI Neighborhood Standup
The .NET MAUI Neighborhood Standups have been the common get-together for .NET MAUI aficionados—a discussion board to share information and convey the developer group collectively. Maddy Montaquila and David Ortinau hosted the December .NET MAUI Neighborhood Standup—the final of the month-to-month
.NET MAUI extravaganza for the 12 months. Maddy recapped all the most recent .NET MAUI information from Microsoft and the developer group—there was a lot to rejoice with newest launch of .NET MAUI for .NET 7.
David coated tooling updates and dove into some .NET MAUI technical subjects—like Customized Renderers, Handlers, Comet library and Animations. The visitor of the month was a passionate .NET MAUI developer,
however barely embarrassed to face on the shoulder of giants—the subject was polished Telerik UI for .NET MAUI.
With help for Xamarin and .NET MAUI, Telerik UI is supposed to make builders extra productive with hard-hitting well-engineered UI elements
for lovely UX on cell and desktop.
With strong .NET MAUI pattern apps and Telerik Blazor UI now lighting up on native apps, there is no such thing as a dearth of ammunition for builders to construct beautiful apps—let’s go change the world.
Creation Calendars
With December, the vacation season is upon us—time to start out wrapping up the 12 months and get within the festive spirit for Christmas and New Years. One custom to ramp up the joy of the vacations is Creation calendars—little methods to depend down the
variety of days earlier than Christmas. The developer group has constructed up its personal traditions over years—time for tech creation calendars for builders to share data.
There are a number of great creation calendars this 12 months, contributing to particular curiosity areas for builders. Most notable ones for the 2022 vacation season are the C# Creation Calendar,
the .NET Creation Calendar and the .NET MAUI Creation Calendar.
Every calendar guarantees nearly
a complete month of .NET associated content material—kudos for the developer group of us for elevating their arms. Identical to common creation calendars, every day brings shock items of great tech articles for .NET builders. Let’s all buckle up for a
tremendous enjoyable month. Ought to make for tons of relaxed studying till HO-HO-HO arrives!
That is it for now.
We’ll see you subsequent week with extra superior content material related to .NET MAUI.
Cheers, builders!