Category Archives: Essentials

.NET MAUI – Forget Me Not – Part 3

In the previous postings we looked at creating the basic app and adding a single, simple page. This post will really begin to get into it. We’re going to have a number of pages A page for you to enter … Continue reading

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.NET MAUI – Forget Me Not – Part 2

In Part 1 we created the skeleton of Forget Me Not (and explained what it is). Here in Part 2 we’ll add an about page. This is so easy that this will be a short post. Create the page Creating … Continue reading

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New Series: .NET MAUI — Forget Me Not

My buddy in Argentina, Roberto Juarez, and I have set out to create a real-world, non-trivial program using .NET MAUI. This is a learning exercise, and I’d like to invite you to join us. We anticipate that (eventually) this will … Continue reading

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A Dozen Utilities Every .NET Programmer Needs

Lists are always subjective, but it is helpful, I think, to exchange favorites now and again. Feel free to add yours to the comments. Here’s my list in no particular order Visual Studio 2022 – goes without saying that this … Continue reading

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Learning .NET MAUI – Part 15 – SQLite

As an experienced XF programmer, you know that there are times you need a relational database, and SQLite has been the mobile db of choice for a very long time. In this post we’ll create a table in SQLite and … Continue reading

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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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