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Web Development with Blazor

You're reading from   Web Development with Blazor A practical guide to building interactive UIs with C# 12 and .NET 8

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781835465912
Length 366 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Jimmy Engström Jimmy Engström
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Hello Blazor FREE CHAPTER 2. Creating Your First Blazor App 3. Managing State – Part 1 4. Understanding Basic Blazor Components 5. Creating Advanced Blazor Components 6. Building Forms with Validation 7. Creating an API 8. Authentication and Authorization 9. Sharing Code and Resources 10. JavaScript Interop 11. Managing State – Part 2 12. Debugging the Code 13. Testing 14. Deploying to Production 15. Moving from, or Combining with, an Existing Site 16. Going Deeper into WebAssembly 17. Examining Source Generators 18. Visiting .NET MAUI 19. Where to Go from Here 20. Other Books You May Enjoy
21. Index

Creating a new project

To develop cross-platform applications, we must install cross-platform tools in Visual Studio.

If you haven’t done that, please open the Visual Studio installer and select the .NET Multi-Platform App UI development workflow.

.NET MAUI has a couple of templates: .NET MAUI App, .NET MAUI Blazor Hybrid App, and .NET MAUI class library.

.NET MAUI App

The .NET MAUI App template uses XAML to create applications.

XAML is also used for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Every XAML version differs just a bit but if you have worked with WPF or UWP before, they should feel familiar.

The XAML is converted into native elements. This way, if our app runs on Windows, it will have the look and feel of a Windows application. If we run it on an iOS device, it will look and feel like a native iOS app.

This is probably our best option if we want to use our C# skills to create a cross-platform application...

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