I have been having issues getting a GIF to animate consistently in iOS and Android using the Image control in MAUI. There are open issues on this, but in the meantime, hopefully this solution will meet your needs. On Windows, GIF images in an Image control work as expected. I tried several workarounds many of… Read More »
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 »
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 »
UPDATE: This post has been updated to the latest version of the VS2022 preview. If you are a Xamarin developer, it’s pretty likely you have already heard of .NET MAUI. If not, I’d say the best way to describe it is that it is a successor to Xamarin Forms. I say a successor instead of… Read More »