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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

Grid

Nothing comes close to Grid for flexibility, although its basic use is dead simple. A grid consists of rows and columns. You define the size of each and then fill in the resulting boxes.

By default, all the columns are the same width, and all the rows are the same height. Rows and columns are identified (by default) by their offset starting at column 0, row 0. You can leave out the 0 (it is the default value) but I advise against doing so for readability. (This is the same reason I mark private methods and classes with the private keyword.)

We can recreate the LoginPage page using Grid. Let’s look at the first approximation in full (I’ve left out the resources section, as it is unchanged):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ContentPage
    Title="Login Page"
    x:Class="ForgetMeNotDemo.View.LoginPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft...
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