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.NET Frontend Day 2022 took place on 10th February with a great line-up of speakers from the community & Microsoft and topics for all .NET developers. I will highlight the sessions that were of most interest to Xamarin and .NET MAUI developers. What ...
When writing a cross platform app it is common to need some platform specific code. In Xamarin.Forms we use DependencyService, in .NET MAUI we can use a similar dependency injection technique or take advantage of MAUI's multi-targeting and partial cl...
.NET MAUI Preview 11 was released a little over a week ago but it was something of a stealth release due to a late bug in Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2. We can still install Preview 11 using the CLI but there are some caveats. In this article I e...
With the release of Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 in early November I decided it was time to set sail for .NET MAUI. This article documents my experiences starting a new cross platform app using .NET MAUI Preview 10. The app is a playground for exper...
One of the advantages of using a CollectionView rather than a ListView is the ability to change the layout and orientation of the items in the collection. In this article I look at how we can use this feature to improve the look of our Xamarin.Forms ...
XamExpertDay 2021 took place on 1st October with a great line-up of speakers and interesting topics for Xamarin and .Net MAUI developers. Organised by Gerald Versluis who you probably know from Channel 9 and his awesome YouTube videos, Kerry Lothrop ...