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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

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There are many controls for displaying and obtaining data from the user. The following sections will cover the most common and useful ones, including those shown here:

  • Images
  • Labels
  • Buttons
  • ImageButtons
  • Entering text

Images

You can write a .NET MAUI program without images, but it is likely to look pretty boring. Managing images is much easier in .NET MAUI than it was in Xamarin.Forms. Now, instead of having to have one image for each resolution in iOS and Android, you place one image in the resources folder, and .NET MAUI takes care of the rest for all the platforms!

In this example, we’ll use an image named flower.png, which you can download from our GitHub repository. If you prefer, though, you can use any image you like. We’ll place the image in the Resources > Images folder.

When we are ready to display it, we’ll use an Image View. Here is a simple example:

<Image
    HeightRequest=...
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