Category Archives: Essentials

Maddy Montaquila on .NET MAUI

Very excited to have Maddy back on Yet Another Podcast. Today we go beyond the basics to intermediate and advanced topics in .NET MAUI. Or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 14

Have I thanked James Montemagno yet? His 4 hour training video is the foundation of this series of posts (with his permission). Part 0 which kicks off this series is here. Platform Specific Services Now that we’ve covered platform services … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 13

In this post we’ll do three things: Add a clear button to clear out the list of zip codes Add the Connected service to make sure we have internet connection before trying to get the zip codes Add the IMap … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 12

We left off displaying the zip codes and going to the details, but not displaying the selected zip code. Let’s fix that and clean some things up. Choosing from the list and displaying the details In the previous version we … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 11

This one should be short. We’re going to take a look at passing values when navigating. Passing in values requires that you pass a Dictionary, where the key is an arbitrary string and the object is the value you are … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 10

Let’s take a quick look at simple navigation (in the next post we’ll look at some more you can do with navigation. As usual, we’ll start with the previous day’s code. To get started, we’ll add a button to the … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 9

Once again, we’ll pick up where we left off. But today we’re in for some big changes. Let’s add an IsBusy property to use in the MainViewModel. We’ll use the same trick we did with _resultList: Let’s further assume you … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 8

Busy week, so this one will be short. I’ve taken the code from Part 7 and copied it into Part 8. The source for 8 is here. So, what’s new? The most important improvement in 8 is the addition of … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 7

Let’s pick up where we left off in the previous blog post, but it is time to clean up the app to use MVVM. First step: create a ViewModel folder and in that put two files: MainViewModel ViewModelBase

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 6

I’m going to start off where we were at the end of Part 5, but this time instead of creating two labels (for State and Zip) I’m going to create one label with MultiBinding: <Label VerticalOptions=”Center”> <Label.Text> <MultiBinding StringFormat=”{}{0} | … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 5

When last we looked, we were returning a few countries. Let’s use ZipWise’s ability to look up a city name and give us all the info about all matching cities. We’ll then have fun with displaying that info. When I … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 4

We’ve seen how to get a single zip code and display it in a series of labels. Let’s use a collection to take a look at how we might deal with that in MAUI. To get started, we’ll create a … Continue reading

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