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.NET MAUI Projects

You're reading from   .NET MAUI Projects Build multi-platform desktop and mobile apps from scratch using C# and Visual Studio 2022

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837634910
Length 630 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Michael Cummings Michael Cummings
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Johan Karlsson Johan Karlsson
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Daniel Hindrikes Daniel Hindrikes
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to .NET MAUI FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building Our First .NET MAUI App 4. Chapter 3: Converting a Xamarin.Forms App into .NET MAUI 5. Part 2: Basic Projects
6. Chapter 4: Building a News App Using .NET MAUI Shell 7. Chapter 5: A Matchmaking App with a Rich UX Using Animations 8. Chapter 6: Building a Photo Gallery App Using CollectionView and CarouselView 9. Chapter 7: Building a Location Tracking App Using GPS and Maps 10. Chapter 8: Building a Weather App for Multiple Form Factors 11. Part 3: Advanced Projects
12. Chapter 9: Setting Up a Backend for a Game Using Azure Services 13. Chapter 10: Building a Real-Time Game 14. Chapter 11: Building a Calculator Using .NET MAUI Blazor 15. Chapter 12: Hot Dog or Not Hot Dog Using Machine Learning 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a repository and a TodoItem model

Any good architecture always involves abstraction. In this app, we need something to store and retrieve the items of our to-do list. Later, these will be stored in a SQLite database, but adding a reference to the database directly in the code that is responsible for the GUI is generally a bad idea as it tightly couples your data storage implementation to the UI layer, making it harder to test your UI code independently from the database.

So, what we need is something to abstract our database from the GUI. For this app, we’ve chosen to use a simple repository pattern. This repository is simply a class that sits between the SQLite database and our upcoming ViewModel class. This is the class that handles the interaction with the view, which, in turn, handles the GUI.

The repository will expose methods for getting, adding, and updating items, as well as events that allow other parts of the app to react to changes in the repository...

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