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.NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development

You're reading from   .NET MAUI Cross-Platform Application Development Leverage a first-class cross-platform UI framework to build native apps on multiple platforms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800569225
Length 400 pages
Edition 1st 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
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with .NET MAUI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building Our First .NET MAUI App 4. Chapter 3: User Interface Design with XAML 5. Chapter 4: Exploring MVVM and Data Binding 6. Chapter 5: Navigation using .NET MAUI Shell and NavigationPage 7. Chapter 6: Introducing Dependency Injection and Platform-Specific Services 8. Part 2: Implementing .NET MAUI Blazor
9. Chapter 7: Introducing Blazor Hybrid App Development 10. Chapter 8: Understanding the Blazor Layout and Routing 11. Chapter 9: Implementing Blazor Components 12. Chapter 10: Advanced Topics in Creating Razor Components 13. Part 3: Testing and Deployment
14. Chapter 11: Developing Unit Tests 15. Chapter 12: Deploying and Publishing in App Stores 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced the routing and layout of Blazor. These are the components that we can use to build the navigation hierarchy of our app. By the end of this chapter, we can now perform basic navigation as in the XAML version of our app.

When we built the UIs in this chapter, we saw that the UI design technique of Blazor is the same as web UI design. We can reuse the code from an existing framework, such as Bootstrap.

If we want to create the UI on our own, we can work on the initial design in a playground first. After we are satisfied with the UI design, we can copy HTML and CSS code into our Razor file to build a Razor component. There are many playgrounds used by frontend developers, such as CodePen, JSFiddle, CodeSandbox, and StackBlitz.

In this chapter, we reused Bootstrap examples to build our UIs. Even though this is a straightforward way to implement a web UI, there are many duplicated codes created. In the next chapter, we will refine our code...

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