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Apps and Services with .NET 8 - Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Dec 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637133
Pages 798 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Mark J. Price Mark J. Price
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Preface 1. Introducing Apps and Services with .NET 2. Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server 3. Building Entity Models for SQL Server Using EF Core 4. Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB 5. Multitasking and Concurrency 6. Using Popular Third-Party Libraries 7. Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization 8. Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs 9. Caching, Queuing, and Resilient Background Services 10. Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions 11. Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR 12. Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL 13. Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC 14. Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core 15. Building Web Components Using Blazor 16. Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI 17. Epilogue 18. Index

Understanding XAML

Let’s start by looking at the markup language used by .NET MAUI.

In 2006, Microsoft released Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), which was the first technology to use XAML. Silverlight, for web and mobile apps, quickly followed, but it is no longer supported by Microsoft. WPF is still used today to create Windows desktop applications; for example, Visual Studio 2022 is partially built using WPF.

XAML can be used to build parts of the following apps:

  • .NET MAUI apps for mobile and desktop devices, including Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS. It is an evolution of a technology named Xamarin.Forms.
  • WinUI 3 apps for Windows 10 and 11.
  • Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps for Windows 10 and 11, Xbox, Mixed Reality, and Meta Quest VR headsets.
  • WPF apps for Windows desktop, including Windows 7 and later.
  • Avalonia and Uno Platform apps using cross-platform third-party technologies.

Simplifying code using XAML...

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