{"id":240514,"date":"2022-11-22T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=240514"},"modified":"2022-11-22T07:51:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T15:51:41","slug":"net-maui-is-now-available-in-visual-studio-for-mac-17-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/net-maui-is-now-available-in-visual-studio-for-mac-17-4\/","title":{"rendered":".NET MAUI is now available in Visual Studio for Mac 17.4"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am excited to share the news that .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) is now available in Visual Studio for Mac!\u00a0 .NET MAUI tooling shipped in the 17.4 preview Visual Studio for Mac release in August, and then on November 8<\/span>th<\/span> we shipped the general availability of .NET MAUI tooling in the 17.4 stable release. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This release has also shipped the latest quality and reliability improvements for the .NET MAUI SDK as part of .NET 7. See our <\/span>Release Notes on GitHub<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Visual Studio for Mac Release Notes<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In Visual Studio for Mac 17.4, you now have access to many of the same .NET MAUI productivity features that are available in Visual Studio (Windows).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Single Project and Debugging to Android\/iOS\/Mac Catalyst<\/strong><\/h4>\n

With .NET MAUI single project, you don\u2019t need to stress about resource management across platforms! .NET MAUI single project is an abstraction of platform specific development experiences and tools in one single shared project that can target Android, iOS and Mac from your Mac machine. If you have a Windows machine, you can also build the same app for Windows!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Using multi-targeting and SDK-style project, .NET MAUI allows you to have <\/span>shared resource files within a single project, a single cross-platform app entry point, as well as a simplified debug target selection for running your .NET MAUI apps.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With .NET MAUI single project, you have the ease of a single optimized development experience while still having access to all platform specific experiences and APIs across multiple platforms and devices you are targeting.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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XAML Hot Reload and Live Visual Tree\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Our visual design tools are optimized to improve your productivity while building your UI. With XAML Hot Reload, you can see the UI changes real time in your running app as you make changes to you XAML. That means you won\u2019t need to build and deploy your app every time to validate UI changes. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With Live Visual Tree, you see a real-time view of your running XAML code, which is structured as a tree view of the hierarchy of all UI elements in your running app.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

XCode 14 and .NET 7 Support\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

.NET MAUI for .NET 7<\/span><\/a> focuses on improved performance and functionality, as we have addressed your top feedback issues and is fully cross-platform, so you can take advantage of these on your Mac!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We shipped XCode 14 support for Visual Studio for Mac last month. Support for XCode 14.1 is coming soon in an upcoming service release!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Getting Started\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Get Started today with .NET MAUI and .NET 7 by installing <\/span>Visual Studio for Mac 17.4<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>See the video below, and check out our <\/span>documentation <\/span><\/a>& <\/span>samples<\/span><\/a> for more information. We are also publishing a new activation tutorial soon with interactive steps that will walk you through building your first .NET MAUI app. <\/span><\/p>\n

We will keep working hard to add more functionality to .NET MAUI projects, including .NET (C#) Hot Reload and XAML Live Preview throughout the next releases. In the meantime, please submit your feature requests and bug reports through the Help > Report a Problem menu to help us guide our next releases. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you to all of you who have tried .NET MAUI and given us feedback on the preview releases since August through survey responses, bug reports and various community discussions. Your feedback is crucial for us to guide our next steps of .NET MAUI in Visual Studio for Mac. We are excited to see you try .NET MAUI and we hope to keep improving your development productivity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How to give us feedback:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n