You're reading from Apps and Services with .NET 7 Build practical projects with Blazor, .NET MAUI, gRPC, GraphQL, and other enterprise technologies

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813433

Length 814 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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.NET

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Cross Platform Mobile Development

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Mark J. Price

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Introducing Apps and Services with .NET

2. Managing Relational Data Using SQL Server FREE CHAPTER

3. Managing NoSQL Data Using Azure Cosmos DB

4. Benchmarking Performance, Multitasking, and Concurrency

5. Implementing Popular Third-Party Libraries

6. Observing and Modifying Code Execution Dynamically

7. Handling Dates, Times, and Internationalization

8. Protecting Your Data and Applications

9. Building and Securing Web Services Using Minimal APIs

10. Exposing Data via the Web Using OData

11. Combining Data Sources Using GraphQL

12. Building Efficient Microservices Using gRPC

13. Broadcasting Real-Time Communication Using SignalR

14. Building Serverless Nanoservices Using Azure Functions

15. Building Web User Interfaces Using ASP.NET Core

16. Building Web Components Using Blazor WebAssembly

17. Leveraging Open-Source Blazor Component Libraries

18. Building Mobile and Desktop Apps Using .NET MAUI

19. Integrating .NET MAUI Apps with Blazor and Native Platforms

20. Introducing the Survey Project Challenge

21. Epilogue

22. Index

Using third-party control libraries

There are not as many free or open-source third-party libraries for .NET MAUI as there are for Blazor. This is probably because creating Blazor components is easier. You only need to concern yourself with supporting one user interface target, the web. When building a .NET MAUI control library, you would want to implement each control for native iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and hopefully Linux in the future. That is a lot of tricky work.

The only major component library software manufacturer that gives away a control library for .NET MAUI for free is DevExpress, and its library only supports the two mobile platforms, iOS and Android. It is also not open-source.

You can learn more about the DevExpress library at the following link: https://www.devexpress.com/maui/.

Other .NET MAUI component library software manufacturers charge license fees for their libraries, for example, Progress Telerik ($999 for a single developer license...

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