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Announcing .NET MAUI in .NET 8 Preview 3

April 11, 2023 Apr 11, 2023 04/11/23

David Ortinau

.NET MAUI makes it's way to .NET 8 Preview 3 and is full of new quality improvements for developers across the entire framework. In addition, we are introducing NuGet packages even greater flexibility going forward.

File and Folder dialogs in .NET MAUI with CommunityToolkit

March 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023 03/20/23

Vladislav Antonyuk

Effortlessly incorporate file system dialogs in your .NET MAUI applications.

Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET week #2 recap and final week overview

March 14, 2023 Mar 14, 2023 03/14/23

Ayca Bas

Join us for Hack Together, our virtual hackathon to learn how to build powerful apps with Microsoft Graph and .NET and win exciting prizes.

Join us for Hack Together: Microsoft Graph and .NET

February 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023 02/28/23

Waldek Mastykarz

Join us for Hack Together, our virtual hackathon to learn how to build powerful apps with Microsoft Graph and .NET and win exciting prizes.

Play Audio and Video in .NET MAUI apps with the new MediaElement

January 31, 2023 Jan 31, 2023 01/31/23

Gerald Versluis

.NET MAUI Community Toolkit MediaElement v1.0 is now available! Check out how to get started with playing audio and (live) video in your .NET MAUI app.

Using Command Binding in Windows Forms apps to go Cross-Platform

January 25, 2023 Jan 25, 2023 01/25/23

Klaus Loeffelmann

The WinForms code-behind approach has always made app development in WinForms unrivaled fast. For complex line-of-business apps, however, it can become an architectural challenge. New Command- and Data Binding Features in .NET 7 make UI-Controllers and MVVM an alternative and allow them also be reused in UI stacks like .NET MAUI.

5 .NET MAUI Features for Building Great Desktop Apps

January 23, 2023 Jan 23, 2023 01/23/23

James Montemagno

When developing desktop apps with .NET MAUI there are great built in features that you can integrate into your apps to deliver a higher quality experience for the form factor. Today, we take a look at 5 unique features to consider in your apps.

Announcing .NET Community Toolkit 8.1! Better, faster MVVM source generators, .NET 7 support, and more!

January 18, 2023 Jan 18, 2023 01/18/23

Sergio Pedri

We’re happy to announce the official launch of the .NET Community Toolkit 8.1 release, bringing with it some new highly requested features, improvements, new analyzers and major performance optimizations to the MVVM Toolkit source generators!