This was a big week for .NET MAUI content, starting with .NET Conf: MAUI! We had a great time bringing your a wide range of .NET MAUI content from our studio in Redmond and speakers around the globe.

Table of Contents:

.NET Conf: MAUI

If you only watch one session, I shamelessly must recommend my keynote presentation with Maddy Montaquila.

The rest of the 24 sessions are nicely catalogued at https://docs.microsoft.com/events/dotnetconf-focus-on-maui/.

Books

Michael Stonis from EightBot has written Enterprise Application Patterns with .NET MAUI and updated the companion eShop application to go with it.

dotnet-architecture / eshop-mobile-client

eShop mobile & desktop client built with .NET MAUI

eshop-mobile-client

eShop sample applications have been updated and moved to https://github.com/dotnet/eShop. Active development will continue there.

eshop-mobile-client is a reference .NET MAUI multi-platform client app whose imagined purpose is to serve the mobile workforce of a fictitious company that sells products. The app allows you to manage the catalog, view products, and manage the basket and the orders.

Dependencies

Though eshop-mobile-client mobile app relies on the repo eShopOnContainers for its backend but by default it uses its internal MockServices for all its functionalities. For more details refer to the Setup section.

Architecture

The app architecture consists of two parts:

A .NET MAUI mobile app for iOS, macOS, Android, and Windows.
Several .NET Web API microservices are deployed as Docker containers.

.NET MAUI App

This project exercises the following platforms, frameworks, and features:

.NET MAUI
- XAML
- Behaviors
- Bindings
- Converters
- Central Styles
- Animations
- IoC
- Messaging Center
- Custom Controls
- xUnit Tests
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Libraries

InfiniteScroll

This is a port of Matthew Liebowitz's Xamarin.Forms library that adds this behavior to ListView.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/TheSalLab.MauiInfiniteScrolling

Scandit Barcode Scanning

Scandit has updated their Xamarin.Forms library for .NET 6.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Scandit.DataCapture.Core.Xamarin.Forms/6.14.0-beta.2#readme-body-tab

LiveCharts

James Montemagno turned me on to this SkiaSharp based charting library last week at .NET Conf, and I really want to check it out.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/LiveChartsCore.SkiaSharpView.Maui/2.0.0-beta.350

KeyboardHookLite

I'm stoked for this library that enables a global keyboard listener! This is a common need I have in desktop applications. Right now it only appears to work with Windows.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/KeyboardHookLite

ZXing Barcode Scanner

Our fearless leader Redth has published a .NET MAUI version of his popular barcode scanning library ZXing. It's primarily for mobile, so the Windows bit is just enough to not crash which is perfect me most of our needs.

If you're poking around in the Point of Sale demo I made for .NET Conf, you'll find this put to use. :)

https://www.nuget.org/packages/ZXing.Net.Maui/