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Welcome to the Sands of MAUI—newsletter-style issues dedicated to bringing together latest .NET MAUI content relevant to developers.

A particle of sand—tiny and innocuous. But put a lot of sand particles together and we have something big—a force to reckon with. It is the smallest grains of sand that often add up to form massive beaches, dunes and deserts.

Most .NET developers are looking forward to .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)—the evolution of Xamarin.Forms with .NET 6. Going forward, developers should have much more confidence in the technology stack and tools as .NET MAUI empowers native cross-platform solutions on mobile and desktop.

While it is a long flight until we reach the sands of MAUI, developer excitement is palpable in all the news/content as we tinker and prepare for .NET MAUI. Like the grains of sand, every piece of news/article/video/tutorial/stream contributes towards developer knowledge and we grow a community/ecosystem willing to learn and help.

Sands of MAUI is a humble attempt to collect all the .NET MAUI awesomeness in one place. Here's what is noteworthy for the week of November 29, 2021:

Blazor with .NET MAUI

.NET developers building web apps are understandably excited about Blazor—C# code front and back with familiar Razor syntax and productive tooling. With .NET MAUI, the story gets better with Blazor goodness now welcome on native cross-platform apps for mobile and desktop. Eilon Lipton did an awesome session at .NET Conf covering the promise of Blazor on native apps—powered by .NET MAUI.

Developers get to write true Blazor code and bring in Razor Class Libraries into native apps bootstrapped by .NET MAUI—all possible with the modern light weight BlazorWebView component, while maintaining full native device API access. This promise of Blazor on mobile/desktop with .NET MAUI should be the foundation of migrating/modernizing older apps while sharing code with web apps—the future looks good!

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Cross-Platform Apps with .NET MAUI

Nish Anil and Vivek Sridhar hosted the latest Microsoft Reactor show called SamosaChai.NET—what better way to learn .NET than over the classic Indian snack time. The guest was none other than James Montemagno who talked through building mobile/desktop apps with .NET MAUI and Blazor.

Over friendly banter, James walked through the .NET MAUI basics, from getting started with the templated solutions to building the complex .NET Conf podcast app. If you are still on the fence about .NET MAUI, this is a great starting point to see the future of cross-platform app development with .NET.

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.NET 6 Unleashed

Matt Soucoup hosted the latest .NET MAUI podcast and invited James Montemagno and David Ortinau for company. On the cards was celebrating all things .NET 6—the release, tooling, .NET Conf and of course, .NET MAUI. When friends hang out live on air, they share customer stories and quality ramblings about the state of modern .NET.

Key takeaways include developer flexibility with .NET—the right tools for the right job without being forced into it. Client developers with .NET have a native desktop and mobile technology stacks to reach just about any device. Web developers doing .NET could be doing some flavor of ASP.NET or Blazor, but many enterprises also have investments in JS stacks with Angular/React—all of which is now welcome in cross-platform native apps with .NET MAUI. Choice in technology stack is a good thing and .NET developers love the flexibility.

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.NET MAUI in .NET Curry

DotNetCurry, better known as 'DNC', produces a free digital magazine publication bringing the latest from the .NET/JavaScript worlds, presented by Microsoft MVP's and industry veterans. DNC Magazine recently hit the 50th edition—big congratulations are due for continued efforts to maintain quality and reaching the milestone. The 50th edition does not disappoint and is packed with loads of .NET/JS content, including big coverage of .NET MAUI.

Gerald Versluis turned off his usual camera/microphone and took to the keyboard to write up a piece of what developers can expect with .NET MAUI. Gerald covers the .NET MAUI basics, the new Handler architecture, Host Builder model, bringing in Blazor goodness and several other benefits that .NET MAUI brings to the table. Going offline for a bit? This 50th edition DNC Magazine is a must to download and soak in all the latest developer content.

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TinyMvvm for .NET MAUI

For good reason, the MVVM design pattern works well for XAML/C# codebases and much of the core features are supported out of the box in Xamarin.Forms/.NET MAUI. When you need just a little bit more help, but want to stay away from heavier MVVM frameworks, you may look at TinyMvvm, an open-source light-weight MVVM library custom built for Xamarin.Forms.

Wondering what the future holds with TinyMvvm with .NET MAUI? Developer Daniel Hindrikes has you covered. After the 3.0 release, the first preview of TinyMvvm for .NET MAUI is now out and ready for you to give things a spin. Not surprisingly, the MauiAppBuilder Host Builder pattern to bootstrap .NET MAUI apps works well with dependency injection—it would be really simple to use an extension method with a resolver and get rolling using TinyMvvm for .NET MAUI apps.

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That's it for now.

We'll see you next week with more awesome content relevant to .NET MAUI.

Cheers, developers!


SamBasu
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Sam Basu

Sam Basu is a technologist, author, speaker, Microsoft MVP, gadget-lover and Progress Developer Advocate for Telerik products. With a long developer background, he now spends much of his time advocating modern web/mobile/cloud development platforms on Microsoft/Telerik technology stacks. His spare times call for travel, fast cars, cricket and culinary adventures with the family. You can find him on the internet.

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