November 8th, 2021

Announcing .NET MAUI Preview 10

David Ortinau
David Ortinau
Principal Product Manager

.NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) Preview 10 is now available atop the stable release of .NET 6, and you can acquire it today in the preview channel of Visual Studio 2022. This new release includes the merging of the remaining Windows App SDK dependencies, and ongoing progress to complete the remaining controls and control features.

Installing .NET MAUI

Now to install .NET MAUI, you will want to make sure you are using the preview version of Visual Studio 2022 (17.1) which ships today alongside the stable 17.0 release. When installing, all you need is the “Mobile development with .NET” workload which by default provides the “.NET MAUI (Preview)” dependencies. In a future release, .NET MAUI will be promoted to its own top-level workload.

Visual Studio installation with Mobile development with .NET checked

That’s it! No more additional extensions are needed, and you’re ready to begin developing with .NET MAUI.

Update on controls and features

New in this release are handler implementations of CollectionView and IndicatorView. Other controls have also seen properties implement for VerticalTextAlignment, TextTransform, and more. For a complete list of the changes and improvements, see the release notes.

CollectionView covers most of the same virtualized list based scenarios as ListView and adds support for other layouts such as horizontal and grid. Here is a vertical scrolling grid spanning two columns:

grid of monkeys displayed by a CollectionView control

<CollectionView ItemsSource="{Binding Monkeys}"
                ItemsLayout="VerticalGrid, 2">
    <CollectionView.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <Grid Padding="10" RowDefinitions="60" ColumnDefinitions="70,*">
                <Image Grid.RowSpan="2" 
                        Source="{Binding ImageUrl}" 
                        Aspect="AspectFill"
                        HeightRequest="60" 
                        WidthRequest="60">
                    <Image.Clip>
                        <RectangleGeometry Rect="0,0,160,160"/>
                    </Image.Clip>
                </Image>
                <Label Grid.Column="1" 
                        Text="{Binding Name}" 
                        FontAttributes="Bold"
                        TextColor="White"
                        VerticalOptions="Start"
                        LineBreakMode="TailTruncation" />
                <Label Grid.Column="1" 
                        Text="{Binding Location}"
                        LineBreakMode="TailTruncation"
                        FontAttributes="Italic" 
                        TextColor="White"
                        VerticalOptions="End" />
            </Grid>
        </DataTemplate>
    </CollectionView.ItemTemplate>
</CollectionView>

For more information on how to use these controls, check out our documentation:

Get Started Today

First thing’s first, install Visual Studio 2022 Preview (17.1 Preview 1) and confirm .NET MAUI (preview) is checked under the “Mobile Development with .NET workload”. Ready? Open Visual Studio 2022 and create a new project. Search for and select .NET MAUI.

Preview 10 release notes are on GitHub and we have captured the top changes in a migration guide in the wiki. For additional information about getting started with .NET MAUI, refer to our documentation.

Feedback Welcome

Visual Studio 2022 previews are incrementally enabling new features for .NET MAUI. As you encounter any issues with debugging, deploying, and editor-related experiences, please use the Help > Send Feedback menu to report your experiences.

Please let us know about your experiences using .NET MAUI to create new applications by engaging with us on GitHub at dotnet/maui.

For a look at what is coming in future releases, visit our product roadmap, and for a status of feature completeness visit our status wiki.

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David Ortinau
David Ortinau
Principal Product Manager

David is a Principal Product Manager for .NET at Microsoft, focused on .NET MAUI. A .NET developer since 2002, and versed in a range of programming languages, David has developed web, environmental, and mobile experiences for a wide variety of industries. After several successes with tech startups and running his own software company, David joined Microsoft to follow his passion: crafting tools that help developers create better app experiences. When not at a computer or with his family, David ...

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  • Ashish Sam

    Hi. I am able to build and run using Visual Studio successfully.

    Now I would like to build using CLI (dotnet). When I try dotnet build in the root folder of the project, it builds all projects except the windows one. Can you please tell me what command should I use in CLI to build the windows project?

  • Aniruddha rokade

    Not able to find .Net MAUI in visual studio 22. I have tried finding it in VS Installer in mobile development but there was only option for xamarin. How should I get my hands on MAUI?

  • Selim Terzi

    Thanks for the latest release.
    I’m wondering something, when will it be officially released? Visual Studio version without a preview version.

  • prodbyjonny

    is there any cooperation between you and the devs of Visual studio for mac for closer integration of maui to vs for mac?

  • Lester Moreno · Edited

    Hello,

    I think I found a bug on the Databinding on MAUI Preview 10.
    If you have a Entry inside of a Border the Text=”{Binding Temperature}” does not trigger the Get on the viewmodel.

    Thanks
    Lester Moreno

  • Jupiter rules

    Few days ago i downloaded 17.1 preview. I created sample program and build and run . It was ok.
    Now whole visual studio broke. I removed visual studio 4 time and restarted pc and installed. Nothing work now.
    Probably they are making changes and messed up everything. We cant test broken codebase.

    Instead of visual studio updating itself which i dont think working , they should provide scripts for update. I googling and tried everything ....

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  • Enrique Morell

    When will the MAUI app shown in the .net conf be open sourced? Thanks!

  • Jupiter rules · Edited

    I am trying to learn .net and stuff because i wanted to create Simple desktop app. C++ and WPF were tedious. I installed release 17.1 preview visual studio and ran blazor maui as debug and release version. But that using visual studio menus. How do i run from command line blazor maui? I am googling forever i cant find a run command. I just clicked blazormauiApp.exe , nothing happens. It seems like exe is doing...

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  • Huy Dang

    I had installed VS2022 (17.1) but when I created a new project, It didn’t a single project and I couldn’t add a new page because it a xamarin page

  • John Hair

    Anyone else having breakpoint issues with iOS? This is android but Im getting the same on iOS: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/2699

    Breakpoints will break but point to external code. Debugging Windows works though.

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