Introducing .NET 6: Getting Started with Blazor, MAUI, Windows App SDK, Desktop Development, and Containers

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N. VermeirIntroducing .NET 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7319-7_6

6. MAUI

Nico Vermeir¹  

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Merchtem, Belgium

 

MAUI, or the Multi-Application User Interface, is the next iteration of Microsoft’s Xamarin framework. Xamarin has come a long way since its startup days back in 2011. It has evolved from being a C# wrapper around Java and Objective-C to a world-class cross-platform library, enabling mobile developers to write apps for multiple platforms in the same language, without ever having to switch back to the platform’s native language. All of this was, thanks to Mono, an open-source implementation of .NET. Mono’s original reason of existence was bringing ...