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.NET MAUI for C# Developers

You're reading from   .NET MAUI for C# Developers Build cross-platform mobile and desktop applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837631698
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rodrigo Juarez Rodrigo Juarez
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Getting Started
2. Chapter 1: Assembling Your Tools and Creating Your First App FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: What We Will Build: Forget Me Not 4. Chapter 3: XAML and Fluent C# 5. Chapter 4: MVVM and Controls 6. Chapter 5: Advanced Controls 7. Chapter 6: Layout 8. Part 2 – Intermediate Topics
9. Chapter 7: Understanding Navigation 10. Chapter 8: Storing and Retrieving Data 11. Chapter 9: Unit Testing 12. Part 3 – Advanced Topics
13. Chapter 10: Consuming REST Services 14. Chapter 11: Exploring Advanced Topics 15. Assessments 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Setting up for MVVM

MVVM is as much a way to organize your files and folders as it is an architectural approach. To get started using MVVM we’ll do two things:

  1. Create the folders.
  2. Download the associated Community Toolkits.

Creating folders

We will be creating three folders. Before I tell you the names of these folders, I should say there is some disagreement about what exactly to name them. Table 4.1 shows the folder names and their alternatives:

Name we’ll use

Alternative 1

Alternative 2

Model

Models

View

Views

Pages

ViewModel

ViewModels

Table 4.1 – Naming the folders

As you can see, the key difference is whether or not...

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