Jesse Liberty

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Very excited about this book. Feedback is very welcome at jesseliberty@gmail.com.

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My latest book: Learn .NET MAUI — An Essential Guide for C# Developers will be released March 31, 2023.

Given the existence and likely enhancements to the .NET MAUI Community Markup Toolkit for C#, and that many people will come to MAUI with little or no XAML (or will know XAML and hate it), I was tempted to show all of the code in C#.

But the truth is that most extant User Interface code is in XAML and anything you can do in C# you can do in XAML. So, at least for the first edition, the majority of the code is in XAML with one full view recreation in C#

Here is the Table of Contents:

1. Assembling your tools and creating your first app
2. What we will build: Forget Me Not
3. XAML and C#
4. MVVM And Controls
5. Advanced Controls
6. Layout
7. Understanding Navigation
8. Storing and retrieving data
9. Unit Tests
10. Consuming a REST API
11. Advanced Topics

I’m eager to hear your ideas about this decision.

Thanks.

Triggers in .NET MAUI are not that different from triggers in Xamarin.Forms, but since this is not a frequently used feature, I thought I’d provide a quick deep-dive into their usage.

Triggers allow you to declare, in your XAML, how a control should appear based on data changes. You can combine state triggers with Visual State, a topic I’ll cover in a subsequent blog post.

This is the first of a series of short pieces based on material in my forthcoming book .NET MAUI For C# Developers (Packt* Publishing) which we are targeting for publication in early April.