Announcing .NET MAUI support for .NET 7 Release Candidate 2

David Ortinau

Principal Product Manager

.NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) with .NET 7 Release Candidate 2 is now available in Visual Studio 17.4 Preview 4 on both Windows and Mac. The primary themes of RC2 are quality and .NET support for Xcode 14 with iOS 16. This release is covered by a go-live support license for use in production.

In related news, new libraries have also shipped for MSAL.NET and App Center (Preview). These are both key libraries that .NET MAUI developers have been asking for. MSAL.NET is essential when using Azure Active Directory and the Microsoft identity platform for authentication. App Center provides services for app diagnostics and analytics.

Getting Started

Install or upgrade to the latest preview of Visual Studio 2022:

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac – 17.4 Preview 4 Download
Visual Studio 2022 for Windows – 17.4 Preview 4 Download

If targeting iOS, you can now build directly to your iOS device on Windows, or if you use a Mac (or Mac build host) by installing Xcode 14.0.x from the Apple Developer website. Note Apple’s minimum requirement for Xcode 14 is macOS Monterey 12.5 which is higher than Xcode 13.4 required.

.NET MAUI Learning Resources

Whether you’re just now jumping into developing native client apps with .NET MAUI, or you’ve been at it for a while, there are a lot of resources available to help you. Don’t see what you’re looking for below? Please open an issue on GitHub and we’ll see what we can do to help.

How do I .NET Multi-platform App UI documentation .NET MAUI Samples Enterprise application patterns using .NET MAUIBeginner Training Learn Path – Build mobile and desktop apps with .NET MAUI .NET MAUI for beginners video seriesRelease Notes .NET for Android .NET for iOS .NET MAUI

Community Collections Javier’s Awesome .NET MAUI list Vladislav’s list Egvijay’s list Matt’s list Gerald Versluis’ YouTube James Montemagno’s YouTube Javier Suarez’s YouTubeKeeping Up-to-date .NET MAUI podcast * .NET MAUI blogs

Feedback

Please let us know about your experience using .NET MAUI by opening issues on GitHub, and these latest versions of Visual Studio 2022 via the feedback button (Mac | Windows).

Author

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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Alexander October 29, 2022

I have no idea how useless MAUI is for me without X support. While .NET can, ASP.NET Core can, even Unity can, MAUI can’t. Meanwhile I stay on Avalonia.
Jan Seriš October 25, 2022 · Edited

MAUI needs a WinForms-like designer.
WinForms designer allows to design independent pieces of the UI (called UserControls) not requiring the application to run.
This technology has existed for 20+ years.
Writing everything in XAML, having to have buildable project, running it (compilation in MAUI takes a long time) and then changing it is super unproductive.

Hot Reload usually doesn’t work when you make any C# code changes.
- Tyler October 25, 2022
  
  Hot Reload reliably doesn’t work at all. We’ve finally given up on even trying to use it and have disabled the feature.
  - Akash Bagh October 28, 2022 · Edited
    
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Karl von Laudermann October 20, 2022

This is great and all, but there still hasn’t been a non-preview release of Visual Studio Mac that supports MAUI, even under .NET 6.
明黄 October 18, 2022

Create MauiBlazor App, .net 7.0 RC2, Compile Error;
https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/10775

Is this the quality standard of RC2?