I had a request recently to print PDFs from .NET MAUI specifically on Windows Desktop. They also had the need to not display a print dialog, and just print to the default printer. This isn’t nearly as easy as it would seem, and there is a lot of conflicting information online about it. I tried… Read More »
Note: your mileage may vary, and I’m interested to hear your results. What I’m posting here comes from the fact that pretty much nothing I saw online actually worked for setting the color of the Windows title bar, or the sample was so complex it couldn’t be easily reused. I literally spent days trying to… Read More »
Recently I recorded two videos for Microsoft dev/Radio on YouTube, one for calling into OpenAI from .NET MAUI, and another from ASP.NET Blazor. The goal of these is to show how easy it is to get started with OpenAI, and I step through process from starting with the default project templates for Blazor and MAUI,… Read More »
UPDATE: Good news, Xamarin Forms was unexpectedly updated to a newer version of XCode and Android SDK. You will not have any access to new APIs, and official support for Xamarin Forms is still scheduled to end May 2024. That being said, even after this deadline, you will now be able to update your Xamarin… Read More »
Here we are in September of 2023 and it may not be obvious whether you should be using the stable version of Visual Studio or the preview version. Also, things have become a bit more complicated with the announcement that Visual Studio for Mac is in maintenance mode and will go away eventually. First of… Read More »
Let’s say you want a custom control in .NET MAUI where the look and feel can be completely described in XAML and doesn’t require any platform specific rendering. You can easily do this using a ContentView. If you Add New Item, you can choose a .NET MAUI ContentView (XAML). And this will generate a XAML… Read More »
There were two primary ways to store preferences in Xamarin Forms. You could use either App Properties or Xamarin Essentials Preferences. Both are similar, with key/value pairs that are stored somewhere that the application can access, but private to the application. You could remember a username, store application preferences like colors and other customizations, and… Read More »
Good news and not so good news. First the good news. A new Preview for .NET MAUI became available on September 14, 2021. There are several changes, with the most important being that MAUI is now integrated into the workload installer (as an optional package under the Mobile Development workload) and you can now create… Read More »
In 2011, the Microsoft Build developer conference rocked the Windows developer world by pitching JavaScript and HTML as the preferred way to develop applications for Windows 8. It was seen as a betrayal by many loyal .NET developers, and there was a lot of skepticism about Microsoft being able to lure web developers to develop… Read More »
Since the early days of WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) on Windows Vista, XAML (eXtensible Application Markup Language) has been the primary way to do UI layout in .NET for desktop, Silverlight, Windows Phone, and Xamarin Forms. XAML is an XML representation of a .NET object, most commonly used to represent the user interface. XAML is… Read More »