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.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development

You're reading from   .NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development Build high-performance apps for Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows using XAML and Blazor with .NET 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835080597
Length 496 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Roger Ye Roger Ye
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Exploring .NET MAUI FREE CHAPTER
2. Getting Started with .NET MAUI 3. Building Our First .NET MAUI App 4. User Interface Design with XAML 5. Exploring MVVM and Data Binding 6. Navigation Using .NET MAUI Shell and NavigationPage 7. Software Design with Dependency Injection 8. Using Platform-Specific Features 9. Part 2: Implementing .NET MAUI Blazor
10. Introducing Blazor Hybrid App Development 11. Understanding Blazor Routing and Layout 12. Implementing Razor Components 13. Part 3: Testing and Deployment
14. Developing Unit Tests 15. Deploying and Publishing in App Stores 16. Other Books You May Enjoy
17. Index

User Interface Design with XAML

In the previous chapter, we created a new .NET MAUI project named PassXYZ.Vault. As we progress through this book, we will enhance it with the skills and knowledge we acquire. In the last chapter, we got a glimpse of user interface implementation in XAML. In this chapter, we will delve deeper into creating user interfaces using XAML.

The eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML) is an XML-based language that is used to define user interfaces for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Universal Windows Platform (UWP), Xamarin.Forms, and .NET MAUI. The XAML dialects in these platforms share the same syntax but differ in their vocabularies.

XAML allows developers to define user interfaces in XML-based markup language rather than in any programming language. It is possible to write all our user interfaces in code, but user interface design with XAML will be more succinct and more visually coherent. Because XAML does not use a programming language...

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