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The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI

You're reading from   The MVVM Pattern in .NET MAUI The definitive guide to essential patterns, best practices, and techniques for cross-platform app development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805125006
Length 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Key Concepts and Components
2. Chapter 1: What Is the MVVM Design Pattern? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: What is .NET MAUI? 4. Chapter 3: Data Binding Building Blocks in .NET MAUI 5. Chapter 4: Data Binding in .NET MAUI 6. Chapter 5: Community Toolkits 7. Chapter 6: Working with Collections 8. Part 2: Building a .NET MAUI App Using MVVM
9. Chapter 7: Dependency Injection, Services, and Messaging 10. Chapter 8: Navigation in MVVM 11. Chapter 9: Handling User Input and Validation 12. Chapter 10: Working with Remote Data 13. Part 3: Mastering MVVM Development
14. Chapter 11: Creating MVVM-Friendly Controls 15. Chapter 12: Localization with MVVM 16. Chapter 13: Unit Testing 17. Chapter 14: Troubleshooting and Debugging Tips 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Testing MAUI-specific code

As shown in the previous examples, the majority of our code can be tested independently of the platform. But let’s not forget that there is code in our MAUI project as well that could benefit from some unit tests.

Let’s start by adding a new project to hold our tests for the Recipes.Mobile project:

  1. Add a new xUnit Test Project type, just as we did at the beginning of this chapter. Name this project Recipes.Mobile.UnitTests.
  2. Once the project has been created, add a reference to the Recipes.Mobile project.
  3. Add the AutoBogus NuGet package to this project.

The Recipes.Mobile.UnitTests project doesn’t target any specific frameworks other than net8.0. Because of that, we need to make sure net8.0 is on the list of target frameworks of the MAUI project as well. Also, we need to make sure that when the Recipes.Mobile project targets this additional net8.0 framework, it doesn’t output an EXE file. Let’s see...

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